Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 21, 2024· Updated Nov 4, 2025

CVE-2024-24479

Description

A Buffer Overflow in Wireshark before 4.2.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the wsutil/to_str.c, and format_fractional_part_nsecs components. NOTE: this is disputed by the vendor because neither release 4.2.0 nor any other release was affected.

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Affected products

Wireshark/Wiresharkcpe-rescue2 versions
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- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: <4.2.0

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References

lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZT2BX7UARZVVWKITSZMHW7BHXGIKRSR2/mitrevendor-advisory
gist.github.com/1047524396/c50ad17e9a1a18990043a7cd27814c78mitre
github.com/wireshark/wireshark/commit/c3720cff158c265dec2a0c6104b1d65954ae6bfdmitre

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