| Name | CVE-2022-4344 |
| Description | Memory exhaustion in the Kafka protocol dissector 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 |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| wireshark (PTS) | buster | 2.6.20-0+deb10u4 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 2.6.20-0+deb10u7 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 3.4.10-0+deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 4.0.6-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 4.0.8-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| wireshark | source | buster | (not affected) | | | |
| wireshark | source | (unstable) | 4.0.2-1 | | | |
Notes
[bullseye] - wireshark <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - wireshark <not-affected> (vulernable loop in code not present)
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2022-10.html
likely https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/commit/e0bd9d312c362318fd19e41c6c0e23fc81d42253