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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-4181

Crash in the Sysdig Event dissector in Wireshark 3.6.0 and 3.4.0 to 3.4.10 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

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1 Nov 2026, 08:20 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-4181

core-osv · Original source

Published 30 Dec 2021, 22:15 UTC

Crash in the Sysdig Event dissector in Wireshark 3.6.0 and 3.4.0 to 3.4.10 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

osv:CVE-2021-4181
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-4181",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2021-4181",
    "summary": "Crash in the Sysdig Event dissector in Wireshark 3.6.0 and 3.4.0 to 3.4.10 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-4181",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
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      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:06.236984924Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00049.html",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Q6XGBKWSQFCVYUN4ZK3O3NJIFP3OAFVT/",
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        "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-4181.json",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00041.html",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-04",
        "https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html",
        "https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2021-21.html",
        "https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/merge_requests/5429"
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 440943,
  "published_at": "2021-12-30T22:15:10.117+00:00"
}