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Fencer Vulns
high 7.8

CVE-2024-11595 json

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') in Wireshark

published 2024-11-21 23 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-33914

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 18%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

FiveCo RAP dissector infinite loop in Wireshark 4.4.0 to 4.4.1 and 4.2.0 to 4.2.8 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

Patch / fix

  • Wireshark Foundation Wireshark 4.2.9, 4.4.2
  • wireshark wireshark 4.2.9, 4.4.2
  • wireshark Debian 14, Debian 13 4.4.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-11595

  • wireshark SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP7, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 4.6.4-150700.21.8.1
  • libvirt SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP7, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 11.0.0-150700.4.19.1
  • wireshark SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP6, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 4.2.9-150600.18.17.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:1169-1SUSE-SU-2024:4142-1

  • wireshark openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.4.2-2.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14529-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-11595 updated cvss 5.5

wireshark: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') in Wireshark

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 wireshark, wireshark-gnome Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 wireshark, wireshark-gnome
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 wireshark
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 wireshark, wireshark-cli Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 wireshark, wireshark-cli
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
23 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 18% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Wireshark Foundation Wireshark
  • wireshark wireshark

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.