CVE-2024-4855

Use After Free in editcap

State: Published
Severity: 3.6 Low
Published: May 14, 2024
Updated: Mar 27, 2026
Reserved: May 14, 2024

Description

Use after free issue in editcap could cause denial of service via crafted capture file

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	3.6 Low	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L	GitLab

Weaknesses

CWE-416 Use After Free

Affected Products

Product	Versions
editcapWireshark Foundation	4.2.0 to before 4.2.5Affected 4.0.0 to before 4.0.15Affected 3.6.0 to before 3.6.23Affected

References

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2024-08.html
GitLab Issue #19782issue-trackingpermissions-required
GitLab Issue #19783issue-trackingpermissions-required
GitLab Issue #19784issue-trackingpermissions-required
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/66H2BSENPSIALF2WIZF7M3QBVWYBMFGW/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7MKFJAZDKXGFFQPRDYLX2AANRNMYZZEZ/

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