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CVE-2022-4344

Memory exhaustion in the Kafka protocol dissector in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.9...

6.3 MediumFix available

Memory exhaustion in the Kafka protocol dissector in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.9 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
Required

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low

Exploit likelihood

0.58%Down 0.3 points since Jan 12, 2023
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

CVE List Score used 6.3

Memory exhaustion in the Kafka protocol dissector in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.9 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

Record
CVE-2022-4344
CVSS 3.1
6.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Weakness
CWE-400
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2022-51697 6.3

Memory exhaustion in the Kafka protocol dissector in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.9 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

Record
EUVD-2022-51697
CVSS 3.1
6.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Updated
2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-6q39-qvw3-75jq 4.3

Memory exhaustion in the Kafka protocol dissector in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.9...

Memory exhaustion in the Kafka protocol dissector in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.9 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

Record
GHSA-6q39-qvw3-75jq
CVSS 3.1
4.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weakness
CWE-400
Updated
2026-11-02
NVD 6.3

Memory exhaustion in the Kafka protocol dissector in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.9 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

Record
CVE-2022-4344
CVSS 3.1
6.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS 3.1
4.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weakness
CWE-400
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVAZL-12994 4.3

CVE-2022-4344 affecting package wireshark for versions less than 4.0.8-1

Memory exhaustion in the Kafka protocol dissector in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.9 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

Record
AZL-12994
CVSS 3.1
4.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 6.3

Memory exhaustion in the Kafka protocol dissector in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.9 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

Record
CVE-2022-4344
CVSS 3.1
6.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2022-4344 4.3

Memory exhaustion in the Kafka protocol dissector in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.9 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2022-4344
CVSS 3.1
4.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Updated
2026-11-03
OSVOESA-2023-1094 7.5

wireshark security update

Wireshark is an open source tool for profiling network traffic and analyzing packets. Such a tool is often referred to as a network analyzer, network protocol analyzer or sniffer.Wireshark, formerly known as Ethereal, can be used to examine the details of traffic at a variety of levels ranging from connection-level information to the bits that make up a single packet. Packet capture can provide a network administrator with information about individual packets such as transmit time, source, destination, protocol type and header data. This information can be useful for evaluating security events and troubleshooting network security device issues.

Security Fix(es):

Crash in the USB HID protocol dissector in Wireshark 3.6.0 to 3.6.8 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file on Windows(CVE-2022-3724)

Memory exhaustion in the Kafka protocol dissector in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.9 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file(CVE-2022-4344)

Infinite loops in the BPv6, OpenFlow, and Kafka protocol dissectors in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.9 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file(CVE-2022-4345)

Dissection engine bug in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.2 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.10 and allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file(CVE-2023-0413)

Memory leak in the NFS dissector in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.2 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.10 and allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file(CVE-2023-0417)

iSCSI dissector crash in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.2 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.10 and allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file(CVE-2023-0415)

Excessive loops in multiple dissectors in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.2 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.10 and allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file(CVE-2023-0411)

TIPC dissector crash in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.2 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.10 and allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file(CVE-2023-0412)

GNW dissector crash in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.2 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.10 and allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file(CVE-2023-0416)

Record
OESA-2023-1094
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVOESA-2023-1115 7.5

wireshark security update

Wireshark allows you to examine protocol data stored in files or as it is captured from wired or wireless (WiFi or Bluetooth) networks, USB devices, and many other sources. It supports dozens of protocol capture file formats and understands more than a thousand protocols.It has many powerful features including a rich display filter language and the ability to reassemble multiple protocol packets in order to, for example, view a complete TCP stream, save the contents of a file which was transferred over HTTP or CIFS, or play back an RTP audio stream.

Security Fix(es):

Crash in the USB HID protocol dissector in Wireshark 3.6.0 to 3.6.8 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file on Windows(CVE-2022-3724)

Memory exhaustion in the Kafka protocol dissector in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.9 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file(CVE-2022-4344)

Infinite loops in the BPv6, OpenFlow, and Kafka protocol dissectors in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.9 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file(CVE-2022-4345)

Dissection engine bug in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.2 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.10 and allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file(CVE-2023-0413)

Memory leak in the NFS dissector in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.2 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.10 and allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file(CVE-2023-0417)

iSCSI dissector crash in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.2 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.10 and allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file(CVE-2023-0415)

Excessive loops in multiple dissectors in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.2 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.10 and allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file(CVE-2023-0411)

TIPC dissector crash in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.2 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.10 and allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file(CVE-2023-0412)

GNW dissector crash in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.2 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.10 and allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file(CVE-2023-0416)

Record
OESA-2023-1115
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2022-4344 6.3

Memory exhaustion in the Kafka protocol dissector in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.9 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2022-4344
CVSS 3.1
6.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS 3.1
4.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVCLSA-2026-1778128255 No score

wireshark: Fix of 8 CVEs

  • CVE-2022-0585: fix large/infinite loops in multiple dissectors (AMP, ATN-ULCS, BP, GDSDB, P_MUL, WAP, ZigBee ZCL, OpenFlow v5/v6, IPDC, TDS, ASN.1 PER, FT_UINT_BYTES/STRING)
  • CVE-2022-4344: fix Kafka dissector memory exhaustion via decompression/loop bounds
  • CVE-2023-0666: fix RTPS dissector heap-based buffer overflow in g_strlcpy dest_size
  • CVE-2023-0668: fix synphasor dissector heap-based out-of-bounds read via val_to_str_const
  • CVE-2023-2855: fix candump file parser stack buffer overflow on too-long frame length
  • CVE-2023-2856: fix VMS TCPIPtrace file parser stack overflow in packet length search
  • CVE-2023-2858: fix NetScaler nstrace v10 file parser heap buffer overflow
  • CVE-2023-2952: fix XRA dissector infinite loop via integer overflow
Record
CLSA-2026-1778128255
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
wireshark
Azure Linux:2
before 4.0.8-1
4.0.8-1
wireshark
TuxCare:AlmaLinux:9.2
From an advisory covering 8 CVEs
before 1:3.4.10-4.el9.tuxcare.els8
1:3.4.10-4.el9.tuxcare.els8
wireshark-cli
TuxCare:AlmaLinux:9.2
From an advisory covering 8 CVEs
before 1:3.4.10-4.el9.tuxcare.els8
1:3.4.10-4.el9.tuxcare.els8
wireshark-devel
TuxCare:AlmaLinux:9.2
From an advisory covering 8 CVEs
before 1:3.4.10-4.el9.tuxcare.els8
1:3.4.10-4.el9.tuxcare.els8
wireshark
Debian:12
before 4.0.2-1
4.0.2-1
wireshark
Debian:13
before 4.0.2-1
4.0.2-1
wireshark
Debian:14
before 4.0.2-1
4.0.2-1
wireshark
Debian:11
From an advisory covering 47 CVEs
before 3.4.16-0+deb11u1, plus listed versions
3.4.10-0+deb11u13.4.4-13.4.6-1~exp13.4.7-13.4.7-1~exp13.4.8-13.4.9-1
3.4.16-0+deb11u1
wireshark
openEuler:22.03-LTS
From an advisory covering 9 CVEs
before 3.6.11-1.oe2203
3.6.11-1.oe2203
wireshark
openEuler:22.03-LTS-SP1
From an advisory covering 9 CVEs
before 3.6.11-1.oe2203sp1
3.6.11-1.oe2203sp1
wireshark
Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
3.0.5-13.0.7-13.2.1-13.2.2-13.2.3-13.2.3-1ubuntu0.1~esm13.2.3-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
None known
wireshark
Ubuntu:Pro:22.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
3.4.7-1~exp13.4.9-13.6.2-1ubuntu13.6.2-23.6.2-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
None known

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
affected, factsOSV
first indexedCVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2022-4344 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.3) in Wireshark, published January 11, 2023. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.58%, the 48th percentile. Fixed in wireshark 4.0.8-1.

References

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