CVE-2025-13946 (GCVE-0-2025-13946)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-03 08:04
Modified
2025-12-03 14:28
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Summary
MEGACO dissector infinite loop in Wireshark 4.6.0 to 4.6.1 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.11 allows denial of service
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark Version: 4.6.0   ≤
Version: 4.4.0   ≤
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