CVE-2024-8250 (GCVE-0-2024-8250)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-28 23:30 – Updated: 2026-03-27 13:56
VLAI
Title
Expired Pointer Dereference in Wireshark
Summary
NTLMSSP dissector crash in Wireshark 4.2.0 to 4.0.6 and 4.0.0 to 4.0.16 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
  • CWE-825 - Expired Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark Affected: 4.2.0 , < 4.2.7 (semver)
Affected: 4.0.0 , < 4.0.17 (semver)
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