CVE catalog
CVE-2024-24479
wireshark: CVE-2024-24479
- Severity
- Low
- Published
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 1.31% · Oct 25, 2026
A Buffer Overflow in Wireshark before 4.2.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the wsutil/to_str.c, and format_fractional_part_nsecs components. NOTE: this is disputed by the vendor because neither release 4.2.0 nor any other release was affected.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | wireshark | sid | 4.6.9-1 | not affected |
| Debian | wireshark | forky | 4.6.9-1 | not affected |
| Debian | wireshark | trixie | 4.4.18-0+deb13u1 | not affected |
| Debian | wireshark | trixie-security | 4.4.19-0+deb13u1 | not affected |
| Debian | wireshark | bookworm | 4.0.17-0+deb12u3 | not affected |
| Debian | wireshark | bookworm-security | 4.0.17-0+deb12u3 | not affected |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | wireshark | source | sid | Not affected | unimportant | Not reported | Not reported |
| Debian | wireshark | source | forky | Not affected | unimportant | Not reported | Not reported |
| Debian | wireshark | source | trixie | Not affected | unimportant | Not reported | Not reported |
| Debian | wireshark | source | bookworm | Not affected | unimportant | Not reported | Not reported |
OpenFactory catalog packages
Matching against OpenFactory catalog package versions is in progress.