CVE-2024-8250

Summary

CVE-2024-8250 is a vulnerability affecting multiple versions of Wireshark, specifically from 4.2.0 to 4.0.6 and 4.0.0 to 4.0.16, which can lead to a denial of service through packet injection or the use of crafted capture files. This flaw is classified with a medium severity rating, an exploitability score of 1.8, and poses a high impact on availability, requiring user interaction for exploitation. To remediate this issue, users are advised to upgrade to the latest version of Wireshark that addresses this vulnerability. The potential danger for organizations includes service disruption resulting from attacks leveraging this vulnerability, which could impact network analysis capabilities. More details can be found in the vendor advisory and issue tracking pages associated with this CVE ID.

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