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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-5721

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.11, the ENIP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-enip.c by changing the memory-management approach so that a use-after-free is avoided.

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CVE-2019-5721
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1 Nov 2026, 06:54 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2019-5721

core-osv · Original source

Published 8 Jan 2019, 23:29 UTC

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.11, the ENIP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-enip.c by changing the memory-management approach so that a use-after-free is avoided.

osv:CVE-2019-5721
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-5721",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "summary": "In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.11, the ENIP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-enip.c by changing the memory-management approach so that a use-after-free is avoided.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-5721",
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:46.352097060Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1c66174ec7aa19e2ddc79178cf59f15a654fc4fe",
        "https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-05.html",
        "https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14470"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
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    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 436315,
  "published_at": "2019-01-08T23:29:00.577+00:00"
}