Name: CVE-2022-4344: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2023-01-11T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2022-4344, CWE-400, CVSS 6.3, EPSS 0.00569

Memory exhaustion in the Kafka protocol dissector in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.9 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 6.3
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Amazon_linux_2023	—	Upgrade wireshark-develUpgrade wireshark-cli-debuginfoUpgrade wireshark-debugsourceUpgrade wireshark-cli	Feb 17, 2025	Jan 12, 2023
Debian	—	Upgrade wireshark	Jul 30, 2024	Jan 12, 2023
Ubuntu	—	No solution exists	Jun 26, 2025	Jan 12, 2023
Vmware Photon_os	—	Use 'tdnf update' to upgrade all packages to the latest version.	Jan 20, 2025	Jan 11, 2023
Wireshark	—	Upgrade to Wireshark version 3.6.10Upgrade to Wireshark version 4.0.2	Jan 13, 2023	Jan 12, 2023

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CVSS Details

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