CVE-2024-4855 (GCVE-0-2024-4855)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-14 00:03 – Updated: 2024-08-29 15:04
VLAI?
Title
Use After Free in editcap
Summary
Use after free issue in editcap could cause denial of service via crafted capture file
Severity ?
3.6 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Wireshark Foundation editcap 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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Credits
Dawei Wang and Geng Zhou, from Zhongguancun Laboratory.
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