Column handling crashes in Wireshark 4.4.0 to 4.4.6 and 4.2.0 to 4.2.12 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

An update of the wireshark package has been released.

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-8043d4cd71 advisory.

    New version 4.4.7

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    Ignoring potential error when using udevadm in %post scriptlet

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-b979c16d88 advisory.

    New version 4.4.7

    ----

    Ignoring potential error when using udevadm in %post scriptlet

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Wireshark installed on the remote macOS / Mac OS X host is prior to 4.2.12. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the wireshark-4.2.12 advisory.

  - Column handling crashes in Wireshark 4.4.0 to 4.4.6 and 4.2.0 to 4.2.12 allows denial of service via     packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2025-5601)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Wireshark installed on the remote Windows host is 4.2.x prior to 4.2.12 or 4.4.x prior to 4.4.7. It is, therefore, affected by a denial of service vulnerability as referenced in the wnpa-sec-2025-02 advisory.

  - Column handling crashes in Wireshark 4.4.0 to 4.4.6 and 4.2.0 to 4.2.12 allows denial of service via     packet injection or crafted capture file (CVE-2025-5601)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
240518	Photon OS 4.0: Wireshark PHSA-2025-4.0-0818	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
240416	Photon OS 5.0: Wireshark PHSA-2025-5.0-0537	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
238474	Fedora 41 : wireshark (2025-8043d4cd71)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
238473	Fedora 42 : wireshark (2025-b979c16d88)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
237767	Wireshark 4.2.x < 4.2.12 A Vulnerability (macOS)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	high
237766	Wireshark 4.2.x < 4.2.12 / 4.4.x < 4.4.7 DoS	Nessus	Windows	high

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CVE-2025-5601

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