CVE-2025-1492 (GCVE-0-2025-1492)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-20 01:30 – Updated: 2026-03-27 13:56
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Title
Uncontrolled Recursion in Wireshark
Summary
Bundle Protocol and CBOR dissector crashes in Wireshark 4.4.0 to 4.4.3 and 4.2.0 to 4.2.10 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
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark Affected: 4.4.0 , < 4.4.4 (semver)
Affected: 4.2.0 , < 4.2.11 (semver)
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OSS-Fuzz
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