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Fencer Vulns
high 7.8

CVE-2024-9781 json

Improper Handling of Missing Values in Wireshark

published 2024-10-10 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-50108

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 24%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

AppleTalk and RELOAD Framing dissector crash in Wireshark 4.4.0 and 4.2.0 to 4.2.7 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

Patch / fix

  • Wireshark Foundation Wireshark 4.2.8, 4.4.1
  • wireshark wireshark 4.2.8, 4.4.1
  • wireshark Debian 12 4.0.17-0+deb12u2
  • wireshark Debian 14, Debian 13 4.4.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-9781

  • 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 4.2.8-150600.18.14.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:1169-1SUSE-SU-2024:3615-1

  • wireshark openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.4.1-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14396-1

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-2024-9781 updated cvss 6.5

wireshark: Improper Handling of Missing Values in Wireshark

  • 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
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 24% 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 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Wireshark Foundation Wireshark
  • wireshark wireshark

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-230 Improper Handling of Missing Values

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.