Expired Pointer Dereference Affecting wireshark package, versions [4.0.0,4.0.16)[4.2.0,4.2.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WIRESHARK-7850541
  • published29 Aug 2024
  • disclosed29 Aug 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Aug 2024

CVE-2024-8250  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-825  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wireshark to version 4.0.16, 4.2.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Expired Pointer Dereference through the NTLMSSP dissector. An attacker can cause the application to crash by injecting malicious packets or using a specially crafted capture file.

CVSS Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1