What is CVE-2024-24478?

CVE-2024-24478 is a high-severity vulnerability in Wireshark, classified under Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2024-02-21.

How severe is CVE-2024-24478?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Wireshark

CVE-2024-24478

An issue in Wireshark before 4.2.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the packet-bgp.c, dissect_bgp_open(tvbuff_t*tvb, proto_tree*tree, packet_info*pinfo), optlen components. NOTE: this is disputed by the vendor because neither release 4.2.0 nor any other release was affected.

EPSS: 0.010 (58.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Wireshark
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-680 — Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow

References

cve@mitre.org (Patch)
cve@mitre.org (Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-24478?: CVE-2024-24478 is a high-severity vulnerability in Wireshark, classified under Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2024-02-21.
How severe is CVE-2024-24478?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.