CVE-2024-4853: Fedoraproject Fedora

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Memory handling issue in editcap could cause denial of service via crafted capture file

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 39 only; version 40 only
• Wireshark Wireshark: from 3.6.0, before 3.6.23 (fixed in 3.6.23); from 4.0.0, before 4.0.15 (fixed in 4.0.15); from 4.2.0, before 4.2.5 (fixed in 4.2.5)

Published 2024-05-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.