CVE-2026-5403 (GCVE-0-2026-5403)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-04-30 23:04
Modified
2026-07-15 00:43
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Summary
SBC codec crash in Wireshark 4.6.0 to 4.6.4 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.14 allows denial of service and possible code execution
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark Version: 4.6.0   ≤
Version: 4.4.0   ≤
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