CVE-2026-76923 (GCVE-0-2026-76923)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-19 22:45 – Updated: 2026-08-20 15:26
VLAI
Title
Out-of-bounds Read in Wireshark
Summary
Bluetooth HFP Profile protocol dissector crash in 4.6.0 to 4.6.7 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.18 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 · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-20 15:07 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark Affected: 4.6.0 , < 4.6.8 (semver)
Affected: 4.4.0 , < 4.4.18 (semver)
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Credits
Aisle Research (Dmitrijs Trizna, Luigino Camastra, Ze Sheng (O2Lab & TAMU), Igor Morgenstern)
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