Medium
Security advisory
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
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-4345
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 2 Nov 2026, 23:08 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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
osv:CVE-2022-4345
Complete source record
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"references": [
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"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00049.html",
"https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2022-09.html",
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"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SGWIW6K64PKC375YAONYXKIVT2FDEDV3/",
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