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GHSA-MP4C-W7J9-95F4

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-01-12 06:30 – Updated: 2025-11-04 00:30

Details

Infinite loops in the BPv6, OpenFlow, and Kafka protocol dissectors in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.9 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

Severity ?

6.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2022-4345 (GCVE-0-2022-4345)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-12 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:46

Summary

Infinite loops in the BPv6, OpenFlow, and Kafka protocol dissectors in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.9 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

Severity ?

6.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CWE

Loop with unreachable exit condition ('infinite loop') in Wireshark

Assigner

GitLab

References

URL

Tags

	https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2022-…
	https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/…
	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023…	mailing-list
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisory
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Wireshark Foundation	Wireshark	Affected: >=4.0.0, <4.0.2 Affected: >=3.6.0, <3.6.10

Credits

Sharon Brizinov

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CVE-2022-4345 (GCVE-0-2022-4345)

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