Medium
Security advisory
Crash in the OPUS protocol dissector in Wireshark 3.6.0 to 3.6.8 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-3725
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 7 Nov 2026, 01:58 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Crash in the OPUS protocol dissector in Wireshark 3.6.0 to 3.6.8 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file
osv:CVE-2022-3725
Complete source record
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"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OIEIFFZ27YKCTK5C2VT4OEQSHPQDBNSF/",
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"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-02",
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