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wireshark — security advisory
Memory exhaustion in the Kafka protocol dissector 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
- Products
- wireshark
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 4.0.2-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-4344
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 15:02 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Memory exhaustion in the Kafka protocol dissector 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
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2022-4344
wireshark
Fixed versions: 4.0.2-1
wireshark
Fixed versions: 4.0.2-1
wireshark
Fixed versions: 4.0.2-1
Complete source record
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