CVE-2022-4344

State: Published
Severity: 6.3 Medium
Published: Jan 11, 2023
Updated: Nov 3, 2025
Reserved: Dec 7, 2022

Description

Memory exhaustion in the Kafka protocol dissector in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.9 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L	GitLab

Weaknesses

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

Product	Versions
WiresharkWireshark Foundation	>=4.0.0, <4.0.2Affected >=3.6.0, <3.6.10Affected

References

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2022-10.html
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-4344.json
FEDORA-2023-9ddb9b9757vendor-advisory
FEDORA-2023-f9e2ad8b73vendor-advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00049.html

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