| Name | CVE-2025-13946 |
| Description | MEGACO dissector infinite loop in Wireshark 4.6.0 to 4.6.1 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.11 allows denial of service |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, 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) | bullseye | 3.4.10-0+deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 3.4.16-0+deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 4.0.17-0+deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm (security) | 4.0.11-1~deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| trixie | 4.4.7-1 | vulnerable |
| forky, sid | 4.6.1-2 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| wireshark | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | | |
Notes
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2025-08.html
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20884
Hang in CLI tool, no security impact