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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-1492
CVE-2025-1492:
Wireshark vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
Bundle Protocol and CBOR dissector crashes in Wireshark versions 4.4.0 to 4.4.3 and 4.2.0 to 4.2.10 was discovered on February 19, 2025. The vulnerability allows denial of service attacks through packet injection or crafted capture files (Wireshark Security, NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability stems from a stack overflow issue in the Bundle Protocol and CBOR dissector components of Wireshark. The issue occurs in the wscborskipnextiteminternal function at line 398 of wscbor.c, leading to recursive calls that can exhaust the stack (GitLab Issue). The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.8 (High) with vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H (NVD).
Impact
The vulnerability can be exploited to cause a denial of service condition in Wireshark. An attacker can trigger the crash either by injecting malformed packets into the network or by convincing a user to open a specially crafted packet trace file (Wireshark Security).
Mitigation and workarounds
Users are advised to upgrade to the fixed versions of Wireshark (4.4.x or 4.2.x) which contain patches for this vulnerability (Wireshark Security).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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