CVE-2019-5718

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.5 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.11, the RTSE dissector and other ASN.1 dissectors could crash. This was addressed in epan/charsets.c by adding a get_t61_string length check.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-5718

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-5718.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201901-5

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed2.6.6-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed2.6.6-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.6.6-1
debian debianforkyfixed2.6.6-1
debian debiansidfixed2.6.6-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.6.6-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.