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CVE-2026-15163

CVE-2026-15163: 2 tracked advisory records across GitLab, Red Hat. Compare vendor sources and published fix guidance.

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GitLab

1 advisory

Red Hat

1 advisory
  • Advisory severityMedium5.5

    Medium [CVE-2026-15163] Denial of Service via multiple protocol dissector infinite loops

    CVE-2026-15163Source published Source updated

    Multiple protocol dissector infinite loops in Wireshark 4.6.0 to 4.6.6 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.16 allow denial of service A flaw was found in Wireshark. A local user could trigger multiple protocol dissector infinite loops by providing specially crafted network traffic for analysis. This could lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) condition, making the application unresponsive. Exploitation requires a local user to open and analyze specially crafted network traffic, limiting the attack vector to interactive use cases rather than automated or remote exploitation. Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 5.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H). Weakness: CWE-835. Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7; Red Hat Enterprise…

    Affected products in this advisory
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

    2 more entries in the full advisory.

    Source-reported affected versions
    Affected-version details not available in this record.
    Source-reported fixed versions
    No fixed-version detail extracted. This does not mean no fix exists.
    Mitigation guidance
    • To mitigate this issue, users should avoid analyzing untrusted or suspicious network capture files with Wireshark. Exercise caution when opening network traffic from unknown sources to prevent triggering the denial of service condition.

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