CVE-2022-3190

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-09-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-835

Description

Infinite loop in the F5 Ethernet Trailer protocol dissector in Wireshark 3.6.0 to 3.6.7 and 3.4.0 to 3.4.15 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 36, 37
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: from 3.4.0 before 3.4.16; from 3.6.0 before 3.6.8 — fixed in 3.4.16, 3.6.8

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Wireshark Foundation Wireshark 3.4.16, 3.6.8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-3190.json
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/18307
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CH4NUKZKPY4MFQHFBTONJK2AWES4DFDA/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YR5LIOF5VKS4DC2NQWXTMPPXOYJC46XC/
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2022-06.html
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-3190.json
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/18307
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00049.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CH4NUKZKPY4MFQHFBTONJK2AWES4DFDA/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YR5LIOF5VKS4DC2NQWXTMPPXOYJC46XC/
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2022-06.html

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