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Alpine: multiple wireshark packages, tshark: security update to 3.0.2-r0

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 426542

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - In Wireshark 3.0.0 to 3.0.1, 2.6.0 to 2.6.8, and 2.4.0 to 2.4.14, the dissection engine could crash. This
 was addressed in epan/packet.c by restricting the number of layers and consequently limiting recursion.
 (CVE-2019-12295)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2019-12295

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 426542

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Published: 5/16/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-12295

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/21/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12295

BID: 108464

IAVB: 2019-B-0039-S