CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-9780

Missing Initialization of a Variable

Published: Oct 10, 2024 | Modified: Oct 17, 2024

CVSS 3.x

5.5

MEDIUM

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS 2.x

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

7.8 IMPORTANT

Ubuntu

MEDIUM

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9780
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/456.html

ITS dissector crash in Wireshark 4.4.0 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

Weakness

The product does not initialize critical variables, which causes the execution environment to use unexpected values.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Wireshark	Wireshark	4.4.0 (including)	4.4.0 (including)
Wireshark	Ubuntu	trusty/esm	*

Potential Mitigations

References

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