CVE-2025-9817 (GCVE-0-2025-9817)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-03 07:38
Modified
2025-09-04 03:55
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-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Summary
SSH dissector crash in Wireshark 4.4.0 to 4.4.8 allows denial of service
References
cve@gitlab.comhttps://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20642
cve@gitlab.comhttps://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2025-03.html
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark Version: 4.4.0   ≤
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