CVE-2021-22207
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5.5 · Resource exhaustion
5.5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Excessive memory consumption in MS-WSP dissector in Wireshark 3.4.0 to 3.4.4 and 3.2.0 to 3.2.12 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.htmlPatch
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-22207.jsonAdvisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00015.htmlAdvisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GIWWO27HV4HUKXV6NH6ULHCRAQB26DMD/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NL7ZTMMWIEPHHFK3ONRKATWE7CLIGLFD/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-21Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5019Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/17331Advisory