CVE-2022-4345

6.3 MEDIUM

Published: January 12, 2023 Modified: November 03, 2025

Description

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

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-4345.json

Source: cve@gitlab.com

Third Party Advisory

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00007.html

Source: cve@gitlab.com

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RDZMWIKH3L5JQZC6GSVOJ3N5UXNQPJGQ/

Source: cve@gitlab.com

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SGWIW6K64PKC375YAONYXKIVT2FDEDV3/

Source: cve@gitlab.com

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2022-09.html

Source: cve@gitlab.com

Vendor Advisory

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-4345.json