Mismatched Memory Management Routines Affecting wireshark package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WIRESHARK-6840351
  • published14 May 2024
  • disclosed14 May 2024
  • creditDawei Wang, Geng Zhou

Introduced: 14 May 2024

CVE-2024-4853  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-762  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Mismatched Memory Management Routines due to improper memory handling when processing crafted capture files. An attacker can cause the application to crash by submitting a specially crafted capture file.

CVSS Scores

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