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Fencer Vulns
low 3.6

CVE-2024-4853 json

Mismatched Memory Management Routines in editcap

published 2024-05-14 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-44431

cvss
3.6
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 36%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Memory handling issue in editcap could cause denial of service via crafted capture file

Patch / fix

  • Wireshark Foundation editcap 3.6.23, 4.0.15, 4.2.5
  • wireshark Debian 12 4.0.17-0+deb12u1
  • wireshark Debian 14, Debian 13 4.2.5-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-4853

  • wireshark SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP6, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 3.6.23-150600.18.3.1
  • wireshark SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP5, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP6, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP5 +1 more 3.6.23-150000.3.115.1
  • wireshark SLES LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5 2.4.16-48.60.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:1522-1SUSE-SU-2024:2265-1SUSE-SU-2024:1865-1

  • wireshark openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.2.5-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:13978-1

  • wireshark Alpine 3.19 4.0.15-r0
  • wireshark Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +2 more 4.2.5-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2024-4853

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • wireshark Azure Linux 3.0 4.4.7-1

azure linux advisories AZL-44073

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

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-2024-4853 updated cvss 5.5

wireshark: Editcap byte chopping crash

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 wireshark, wireshark-gnome Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 wireshark, wireshark-gnome
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Do not process untrusted packet trace files with the editcap program.”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 wireshark, wireshark-cli Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 wireshark, wireshark-cli
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Do not process untrusted packet trace files with the editcap program.”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 wireshark
    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
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 36% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19724 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 3.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
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 editcap

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-762 Mismatched Memory Management Routines
  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

References

Sources

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