CVE-2021-4186 (GCVE-0-2021-4186)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-12-30 00:00
Modified
2025-11-03 21:45
Severity ?
6.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • Null pointer dereference in Wireshark
Summary
Crash in the Gryphon dissector in Wireshark 3.4.0 to 3.4.10 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark Version: >=3.4.0, <3.4.10
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