KLA20164
Multiple vulnerabilities in Wireshark

Updated: 01/16/2023
Detect date
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12/07/2022
Severity
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Warning
Description

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Wireshark. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause denial of service.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

  1. Denial of service vulnerability in BPv6, OpenFlow, and Kafka protocol dissectors can be exploited to cause denial of service.
  2. Denial of service vulnerability in Kafka dissector can be exploited to cause denial of service.
Affected products

Wireshark 3.6.x earlier than 3.6.10
Wireshark 4.0.x earlier than 4.0.2

Solution

Update to the latest version
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Original advisories

Kafka dissector memory exhaustion.
Multiple dissector infinite loops

Impacts
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DoS 
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Related products
Wireshark
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