It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2022-2022-226 advisory.

  - NULL pointer exception in the IPPUSB dissector in Wireshark 3.4.0 to 3.4.9 allows denial of service via     packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2021-39920)

  - NULL pointer exception in the Modbus dissector in Wireshark 3.4.0 to 3.4.9 and 3.2.0 to 3.2.17 allows     denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2021-39921)

  - Buffer overflow in the C12.22 dissector in Wireshark 3.4.0 to 3.4.9 and 3.2.0 to 3.2.17 allows denial of     service via packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2021-39922)

  - Large loop in the PNRP dissector in Wireshark 3.4.0 to 3.4.9 and 3.2.0 to 3.2.17 allows denial of service     via packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2021-39923)

  - Large loop in the Bluetooth DHT dissector in Wireshark 3.4.0 to 3.4.9 and 3.2.0 to 3.2.17 allows denial of     service via packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2021-39924)

  - Buffer overflow in the Bluetooth SDP dissector in Wireshark 3.4.0 to 3.4.9 and 3.2.0 to 3.2.17 allows     denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2021-39925)

  - Buffer overflow in the Bluetooth HCI_ISO dissector in Wireshark 3.4.0 to 3.4.9 allows denial of service     via packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2021-39926)

  - NULL pointer exception in the IEEE 802.11 dissector in Wireshark 3.4.0 to 3.4.9 and 3.2.0 to 3.2.17 allows     denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2021-39928)

  - Uncontrolled Recursion in the Bluetooth DHT dissector in Wireshark 3.4.0 to 3.4.9 and 3.2.0 to 3.2.17     allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2021-39929)

  - Crash in the Sysdig Event dissector in Wireshark 3.6.0 and 3.4.0 to 3.4.10 allows denial of service via     packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2021-4181)

  - Crash in the RFC 7468 dissector in Wireshark 3.6.0 and 3.4.0 to 3.4.10 allows denial of service via packet     injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2021-4182)

  - Infinite loop in the BitTorrent DHT dissector in Wireshark 3.6.0 and 3.4.0 to 3.4.10 allows denial of     service via packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2021-4184)

  - Infinite loop in the RTMPT dissector in Wireshark 3.6.0 and 3.4.0 to 3.4.10 allows denial of service via     packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2021-4185)

  - Crash in the Gryphon dissector in Wireshark 3.4.0 to 3.4.10 allows denial of service via packet injection     or crafted capture file (CVE-2021-4186)

  - Large loop in the Kafka dissector in Wireshark 3.6.0 allows denial of service via packet injection or     crafted capture file (CVE-2021-4190)

  - Crash in the CMS protocol dissector in Wireshark 3.6.0 to 3.6.1 and 3.4.0 to 3.4.11 allows denial of     service via packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2022-0581)

  - Unaligned access in the CSN.1 protocol dissector in Wireshark 3.6.0 to 3.6.1 and 3.4.0 to 3.4.11 allows     denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2022-0582)

  - Crash in the PVFS protocol dissector in Wireshark 3.6.0 to 3.6.1 and 3.4.0 to 3.4.11 allows denial of     service via packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2022-0583)

  - Large loops in multiple protocol dissectors in Wireshark 3.6.0 to 3.6.1 and 3.4.0 to 3.4.11 allow denial     of service via packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2022-0585)

  - Infinite loop in RTMPT protocol dissector in Wireshark 3.6.0 to 3.6.1 and 3.4.0 to 3.4.11 allows denial of     service via packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2022-0586)

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

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