CVE-2019-10897: Fedoraproject Fedora

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Wireshark 3.0.0, the IEEE 802.11 dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-ieee80211.c by detecting cases in which the bit offset does not advance.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 29 only; version 30 only
• Wireshark Wireshark: version 3.0.0 only

Published 2019-04-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.