CVE-2024-0209 (GCVE-0-2024-0209)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-03 07:31 – Updated: 2026-03-27 13:56
VLAI
Title
NULL Pointer Dereference in Wireshark
Summary
IEEE 1609.2 dissector crash in Wireshark 4.2.0, 4.0.0 to 4.0.11, and 3.6.0 to 3.6.19 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark Affected: 4.2.0 , < 4.2.1 (semver)
Affected: 4.0.0 , < 4.0.12 (semver)
Affected: 3.6.0 , < 3.6.20 (semver)
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Credits
Han Zheng
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