CVE-2024-0209 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

IEEE 1609.2 dissector crash in Wireshark 4.2.0, 4.0.0 to 4.0.11, and 3.6.0 to 3.6.19 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Wireshark	Wireshark

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:4.2.0:::::::*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19501
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00049.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-0209
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-0209
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2024-02.html

History

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 22:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References		https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00049.html

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitLab

Published: 2024-01-03T07:31:20.633Z

Updated: 2025-11-03T21:50:52.188Z

Reserved: 2024-01-03T07:30:55.666Z

Link: CVE-2024-0209

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-11-03T21:50:52.188Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-01-03T08:15:10.793

Modified: 2025-11-03T22:16:33.653

Link: CVE-2024-0209

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2024-01-03T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-0209 - Bugzilla

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