Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-4345 - Infinite Loop vulnerability in Wireshark

CVSS 6.5 - MEDIUM

Attack vector

NETWORK

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

NONE

Integrity impact

NONE

Availability impact

HIGH

network

low complexity

wireshark

CWE-835

NVD

Published: 2023-01-12

Updated: 2023-11-07

Summary

Infinite loops in the BPv6, OpenFlow, and Kafka protocol dissectors in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.9 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Wireshark Wireshark Wireshark 4.0.0 Wireshark Wireshark 4.0.1 Wireshark Wireshark 4.0.2 Wireshark Wireshark 3.6.1 Wireshark Wireshark 3.6.2 Wireshark Wireshark 3.6.3 Wireshark Wireshark 3.6.4 Wireshark Wireshark 3.6.5 Wireshark Wireshark 3.6.6	9

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

References

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-4345.json
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2022-09.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00007.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RDZMWIKH3L5JQZC6GSVOJ3N5UXNQPJGQ/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SGWIW6K64PKC375YAONYXKIVT2FDEDV3/