CVE-2019-5718: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only
• Wireshark Wireshark: from 2.4.0, up to and including 2.4.11; from 2.6.0, up to and including 2.6.5

Published 2019-01-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.