CVE-2024-4854 (GCVE-0-2024-4854)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-14 00:03 – Updated: 2025-11-03 22:22
VLAI?
Summary
MONGO and ZigBee TLV dissector infinite loops in Wireshark 4.2.0 to 4.2.4, 4.0.0 to 4.0.14, and 3.6.0 to 3.6.22 allow denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file
Severity ?
6.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark Affected: 4.2.0 , < 4.2.5 (semver)
Affected: 4.0.0 , < 4.0.15 (semver)
Affected: 3.6.0 , < 3.6.23 (semver)
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