Bundle Protocol and CBOR dissector crashes in Wireshark 4.4.0 to 4.4.3 and 4.2.0 to 4.2.10 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

An update of the wireshark package has been released.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Bundle Protocol and CBOR dissector crashes in Wireshark 4.4.0 to 4.4.3 and 4.2.0 to 4.2.10 allows denial     of service via packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2025-1492)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:0754-1 advisory.

    Update to version 4.2.11:

    - CVE-2025-1492: uncontrolled recursion leading to a stack buffer overflow can cause Bundle Protocol and     CBOR dissector       to crash (bsc#1237414).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-04475838f9 advisory.

    New version 4.2.11

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-08e73d463e advisory.

    New version 4.4.4

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Wireshark installed on the remote macOS / Mac OS X host is prior to 4.2.11. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the wireshark-4.2.11 advisory.

  - The Bundle Protocol and CBOR dissectors could crash. Fixed in master: 83c73a83ad Fixed in release-4.4:
    73d7d46bcc Fixed in release-4.2: 2e5e8c1d9a Discovered by OSS-Fuzz. We are unaware of any exploits for     this issue. It may be possible to make Wireshark crash consume excessive CPU resources by injecting a     malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.
    (CVE-2025-1492)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Wireshark installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 4.2.11 or 4.4.4.
It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the wireshark-4.2.11 advisory.

  - The Bundle Protocol and CBOR dissectors could crash. Fixed in master: 83c73a83ad Fixed in release-4.4:
    73d7d46bcc Fixed in release-4.2: 2e5e8c1d9a Discovered by OSS-Fuzz. We are unaware of any exploits for     this issue. It may be possible to make Wireshark crash consume excessive CPU resources by injecting a     malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.
    (CVE-2025-1492)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
232335	Photon OS 4.0: Wireshark PHSA-2025-4.0-0762	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
230884	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-1492	Nessus	Misc.	high
225815	Photon OS 5.0: Wireshark PHSA-2025-5.0-0482	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
216978	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : wireshark (SUSE-SU-2025:0754-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
216971	Fedora 40 : wireshark (2025-04475838f9)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
216970	Fedora 41 : wireshark (2025-08e73d463e)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
216495	Wireshark 4.2.x < 4.2.11 A Vulnerability (macOS)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	high
216494	Wireshark 4.2.x < 4.2.11 / 4.4.x < 4.4.4 DoS Vulnerability	Nessus	Windows	high

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