CVE-2024-8250 (GCVE-0-2024-8250)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-28 23:30 – Updated: 2025-11-03 22:32
VLAI?
Title
Expired Pointer Dereference in Wireshark
Summary
NTLMSSP dissector crash in Wireshark 4.2.0 to 4.0.6 and 4.0.0 to 4.0.16 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CWE
- CWE-825 - Expired Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wireshark Foundation | Wireshark |
Affected:
4.2.0 , < 4.2.7
(semver)
Affected: 4.0.0 , < 4.0.17 (semver) |
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Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date |
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
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- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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