Resource exhaustion in Wireshark - CVE-2022-4344

Vulnerability identifier: #VU70041

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2022-4344

CWE-ID: CWE-400

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources within the Kafka dissector. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Wireshark
Amazon Linux AMI
openEuler
Fedora
wireshark
wireshark-help
wireshark-debugsource
wireshark-devel
wireshark-debuginfo

Install updates from vendor's website.

Wireshark - addressed in versions 3.6.10, 4.0.2
wireshark - update to 3.6.11-1
wireshark-help - update to 3.6.11-1
wireshark-debugsource - update to 3.6.11-1
wireshark-devel - update to 3.6.11-1
wireshark-debuginfo - update to 3.6.11-1
wireshark - addressed in versions 3.6.11-1.fc36, 4.0.3-1.fc37
wireshark - addressed in versions 4.0.3-1, 4.0.5-1

• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2022-10.html

• Multiple vulnerabilities in Wireshark
• Fedora 37 update for wireshark
• Fedora 36 update for wireshark
• openEuler 22.03 LTS update for wireshark
• openEuler 22.03 LTS SP1 update for wireshark
• Amazon Linux AMI update for wireshark
• Amazon Linux AMI update for wireshark