Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-824

Access of Uninitialized Pointer

The product accesses or uses a pointer that has not been initialized.

CVE-2026-6524 (GCVE-0-2026-6524)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-30 05:34 – Updated: 2026-04-30 15:19
VLAI
Title
Access of Uninitialized Pointer in Wireshark
Summary
MySQL protocol dissector crash in Wireshark 4.6.0 to 4.6.4 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.14 allows denial of service
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-824 - Access of Uninitialized Pointer
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark Affected: 4.6.0 , < 4.6.5 (semver)
Affected: 4.4.0 , < 4.4.15 (semver)
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Credits
Alexandre de Oliveira
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CVE-2026-6870 (GCVE-0-2026-6870)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-30 05:33 – Updated: 2026-04-30 12:25
VLAI
Title
Access of Uninitialized Pointer in Wireshark
Summary
GSM RP protocol dissector crash in Wireshark 4.6.0 to 4.6.4 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.14 allows denial of service
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-824 - Access of Uninitialized Pointer
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark Affected: 4.6.0 , < 4.6.5 (semver)
Affected: 4.4.0 , < 4.4.15 (semver)
Create a notification for this product.
Credits
TODO
Show details on NVD website
To clipboard 

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