Access of Uninitialized Pointer Affecting wireshark package, versions [4.6.0,4.6.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WIRESHARK-14136124
  • published27 Nov 2025
  • disclosed26 Nov 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Nov 2025

NewCVE-2025-13674  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-824  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wireshark to version 4.6.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access of Uninitialized Pointer via the dissect_bp function in the packet-bpv7.c file. An attacker can cause the application to terminate unexpectedly by providing a specially crafted packet capture file or by sending malformed network traffic during active capture.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1