QID 376395

Date Published: 2022-02-11

QID 376395: Wireshark CSN.1 Dissector Crash Vulnerability (wnpa-sec-2022-04)

Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer available for multiple operating systems. It lets you capture and interactively browse the traffic running on a computer network.

The CSN.1 protocol dissector could crash on some platforms. Discovered by Sharon Brizinov.

Affected version:
Wireshark version: 3.6.0 to 3.6.1, 3.4.0 to 3.4.11
Note: The preceding description block is extracted directly from the security advisory. Using automation, we have attempted to clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

It may be possible to make Wireshark crash by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.

CVSS V3 rated as High - 6.2 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5.4 severity.

Solution

Vendor has released a patch. upgrade to Wireshark 3.6.2, 3.4.12 or later.
For more details please visit Wireshark.

Vendor References

wnpa-sec-2022-04 - www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2022-04.html

CVEs related to QID 376395

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
wnpa-sec-2022-04			www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2022-04.html

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