CVE-2026-6535

A flaw was found in Wireshark's dissection engine. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted packet. This could trigger a zlib decompression crash, leading to a denial of service and making the application unresponsive or causing it to terminate unexpectedly.

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.

To mitigate this issue, users should avoid opening untrusted capture files or capturing network traffic from untrusted sources with Wireshark. If live capture of potentially malicious traffic is required, consider performing it within a sandboxed environment to contain any potential denial of service.