Security readout for executives and security teams
This is an old Wireshark flaw where a specially crafted packet-capture file could crash or potentially take over a vulnerable analyst workstation. The business risk is mainly to security teams, labs, or automated tooling that still use Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.5 to open untrusted .pcap files. Exposure is most likely in legacy forensic workstations, training images, packet-analysis appliances, or CI/security pipelines that retain Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.5 and process packet captures from outside trusted sources. Prioritize remediation if the organization analyzes packet captures from customers, incidents, malware labs, or other untrusted sources. Otherwise, this is mainly a legacy hygiene issue: find and retire obsolete Wireshark installations before analysts open hostile files. Mitigation focus: Upgrade Wireshark 1.4.x installations to 1.4.5 or later.; Remove legacy Wireshark builds from analyst workstations and shared lab images.; Avoid opening untrusted .pcap files on vulnerable versions..
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Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- wireshark-dect-bo(66834)CVE reference · vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5836CVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15000CVE reference · vdb-entry, signature
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5838CVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
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