CVE-2024-8645

Access of Uninitialized Pointer in Wireshark

State: Published
Severity: 5.5 Medium
Published: Sep 10, 2024
Updated: Mar 27, 2026
Reserved: Sep 10, 2024

Description

SPRT dissector crash in Wireshark 4.2.0 to 4.0.5 and 4.0.0 to 4.0.15 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	GitLab

Weaknesses

CWE-824 Access of Uninitialized Pointer

Affected Products

Product	Versions
WiresharkWireshark Foundation	4.2.0 to before 4.2.6Affected 4.0.0 to before 4.0.16Affected

References

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2024-10.html
GitLab Issue #19559issue-trackingpermissions-required
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00049.html

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