High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Feb 21, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2024-24478
CVE-2024-24478
Description
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.
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References
3- github.com/wireshark/wireshark/commit/80a4dc55f4d2fa33c2b36a99406500726d3faaefnvdPatch
- gist.github.com/1047524396/e82c55147cd3cb62ef20cbdb0ec83694nvdThird Party Advisory
- gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19347nvdIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
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