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Wireshark 4.6.7 patches a dozen security flaws

  • What: Wireshark 4.6.7 releases patches for 12 security flaws
  • Impact: Network analysts using older versions may be at risk from malformed packets
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Network analysts who open packet captures in Wireshark push untrusted data through a large set of protocol dissectors, and each parser is a spot where a malformed frame can trip up the software. The 4.6.7 maintenance release closes twelve of those weak points. The fixes reach from cellular signaling parsers to the code that reads capture files off disk. The security fixes Most of the patched advisories describe crashes. A crafted packet or capture file … More → The post Wireshark 4.6.7 patches a dozen security flaws appeared first on Help Net Security .

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