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High USN-7552-1 10 CVEs

wireshark vulnerabilities

Published Jun 4, 2025 · Updated Jun 25, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

It was discovered that Wireshark did not correctly handle recursion. If a
user or system were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an
attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This
issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-39929)

Roman Donchenko discovered that Wireshark did not correctly handle
parsing certain files. If a user or system were tricked into opening a
specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
(CVE-2021-4182)

It was discovered that Wireshark did not correctly handle parsing
certain files. If a user or system were tricked into opening a specially
crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial
of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS,
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-4185, CVE-2022-0581)

It was discovered that Wireshark did not correctly handle parsing
certain files. If a user or system were tricked into opening a specially
crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial
of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-4186)

Sharon Brizinov discovered that Wireshark did not correctly handle
parsing certain files. If a user or system were tricked into opening a
specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS,
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
(CVE-2022-0582, CVE-2022-0583, CVE-2022-0586)

Sharon Brizinov discovered that Wireshark did not correctly handle
parsing certain files. If a user or system were tricked into opening a
specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
(CVE-2022-0585)

Jason Cohen discovered that Wireshark did not correctly handle parsing
certain files. If a user or system were tricked into opening a specially
crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a
denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
(CVE-2022-3190)

Fixed packages 5

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · Pro 14.04 LTS Pro:14.04:LTS wireshark 2.6.10-1~ubuntu14.04.0~esm3
Ubuntu · Pro 16.04 LTS Pro:16.04:LTS wireshark 2.6.10-1~ubuntu16.04.0+esm2
Ubuntu · Pro 18.04 LTS Pro:18.04:LTS wireshark 2.6.10-1~ubuntu18.04.0+esm2
Ubuntu · Pro 20.04 LTS Pro:20.04:LTS wireshark 3.2.3-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
Ubuntu · Pro 22.04 LTS Pro:22.04:LTS wireshark 3.6.2-2ubuntu0.1~esm1

Vulnerabilities 10

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-4182
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-4185
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-4186
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-39929
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-0581
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-0582
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-0583
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-0585
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-0586
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-3190