Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 14, 2024· Updated Mar 27, 2026
Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') in Wireshark
CVE-2024-4854
Description
MONGO and ZigBee TLV dissector infinite loops in Wireshark 4.2.0 to 4.2.4, 4.0.0 to 4.0.14, and 3.6.0 to 3.6.22 allow denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file
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Affected products
9- osv-coords7 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/wireshark&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.5pkg:rpm/opensuse/wireshark&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.6pkg:rpm/opensuse/wireshark&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/wireshark&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/wireshark&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/wireshark&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Desktop%20Applications%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/wireshark&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Desktop%20Applications%2015%20SP6
< 3.6.23-150000.3.115.1+ 6 more
- (no CPE)range: < 3.6.23-150000.3.115.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.6.23-150600.18.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.5-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.6.23-150000.3.115.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.6.23-150000.3.115.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.6.23-150000.3.115.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.6.23-150600.18.3.1
Patches
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References
4- gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19726mitreissue-trackingpermissions-required
- gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/merge_requests/15047mitre
- gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/merge_requests/15499mitre
- www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2024-07.htmlmitre
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