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medium 5.5

CVE-2026-6867 json

Improperly Controlled Sequential Memory Allocation in Wireshark

published 2026-04-30 6 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2026-26346

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.1%
EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 2%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

SMB2 protocol dissector crash in Wireshark 4.6.0 to 4.6.4 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.14 allows denial of service

Patch / fix

  • Wireshark Foundation Wireshark 4.4.15, 4.6.5
  • wireshark Debian 13 4.4.15-0+deb13u1
  • wireshark Debian 14 4.6.5-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-6867

  • wireshark SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP7, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 4.6.7-150700.21.11.1
  • wireshark SLES 16.0, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 4.4.17-160000.1.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:3501-1SUSE-SU-2026:23124-1SUSE-SU-2026:23147-1

  • wireshark openSUSE Leap 16.0 4.4.17-160000.1.1
  • wireshark openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.6.5-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21534-1openSUSE-SU-2026:10686-1

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-2026-6867 updated cvss 6.5

wireshark: Wireshark: Denial of service via SMB2 protocol dissector crash

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 wireshark, wireshark-gnome Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 wireshark, wireshark-gnome Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 wireshark, wireshark-cli Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 wireshark, wireshark-cli Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 wireshark
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”

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
6 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 2% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/work_items/21191 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 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

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-1325 Improperly Controlled Sequential Memory Allocation

References

Sources

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