Access of Uninitialized Pointer Affecting wireshark package, versions [4.4.0,4.4.15)[4.6.0,4.6.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WIRESHARK-16322807
  • published30 Apr 2026
  • disclosed30 Apr 2026
  • creditSharon Brizinov

Introduced: 30 Apr 2026

CVE-2026-6870  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-824  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wireshark to version 4.4.15, 4.6.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access of Uninitialized Pointer via the GSM RP protocol dissector process. An attacker can cause a crash and disrupt service availability by convincing a user to open a specially crafted packet capture file.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1