Out-of-bounds Write Affecting wireshark package, versions [4.4.0,4.4.13)[4.6.0-rc0,4.6.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.17% (8th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WIRESHARK-15007049
  • published16 Jan 2026
  • disclosed14 Jan 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Jan 2026

CVE-2026-0961  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wireshark to version 4.4.13, 4.6.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write in the blf_pull_logcontainer_into_memory() function of the BLF file parser. An attacker can cause the application to crash and become unavailable by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted BLF file.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1