CVE-2022-4344: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: from 3.0.0, before 3.6.10 (fixed in 3.6.10); from 4.0.0, before 4.0.2 (fixed in 4.0.2)

Published 2023-01-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.