CVE-2024-8250

A flaw was found in wireshark. Affected versions of wireshark allow denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file. It may be possible to cause Wireshark to crash by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.

This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, 8 and 9 as the affected version of wireshark package is currently not provided in any of our supported products.

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.