CVE-2024-24479 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2024-24479?

CVE-2024-24479 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 21 Feb 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A Buffer Overflow in Wireshark before 4.2.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the wsutil/to_str.c, and format_fractional_part_nsecs components. NOTE: this is disputed by the vendor because neither release 4.2.0 nor any other release was affected.

Weakness: CWE-120

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-24479?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Wireshark Wireshark.

How do I fix CVE-2024-24479?

No fix published yet.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2024-24479 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-24479 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as AZL-44026, AZL-44337, GHSA-327r-5927-cj2v.