vulnerability

Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2021-39923: Medium priority package update for wireshark

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 17, 2021
Added
Feb 17, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

Large loop in the PNRP dissector in Wireshark 3.4.0 to 3.4.9 and 3.2.0 to 3.2.17 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file
A flaw was found in Wireshark. A process failure consumes excessive CPU resources on crafted or malformed PNRP input and can cause a denial of service.

Solutions

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