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Wireshark Vulnerability Allows Hackers to Launch DoS Attacks Through Packet Injection

Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2025 3:33 am
by Shane1145
A critical vulnerability in Wireshark’s packet dissection engine could allow attackers to crash the network protocol analyzer through specially crafted packets, security engineers disclosed this week.

Tracked as CVE-2025-5601, the vulnerability enables denial-of-service (DoS) attacks against both live network traffic analysis sessions and offline trace file processing workflows.

https://cyberpress.org/wireshark-vulner ... s-attacks/