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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-9214

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.12 and 2.6.0 to 2.6.6, the RPCAP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-rpcap.c by avoiding an attempted dereference of a NULL conversation.

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1 Nov 2026, 05:23 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2019-9214

core-osv · Original source

Published 28 Feb 2019, 04:29 UTC

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.12 and 2.6.0 to 2.6.6, the RPCAP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-rpcap.c by avoiding an attempted dereference of a NULL conversation.

osv:CVE-2019-9214
Complete source record
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      "references": [
        "https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c557bb0910be271e49563756411a690a1bc53ce5",
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        "https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4416",
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