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Fedora 42: Wireshark Update - NULL Pointer Fix FEDORA-2025-47268f5a30

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Calendar Grey September 11, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Wireshark 4.4.9 is now released in Fedora 42, resolving a NULL reference problem. Upgrade today for improved network monitoring capabilities.
New version 4.4.9

Summary

Wireshark allows you to examine protocol data stored in files or as it is

captured from wired or wireless (WiFi or Bluetooth) networks, USB devices,

and many other sources. It supports dozens of protocol capture file formats

and understands more than a thousand protocols.

It has many powerful features including a rich display filter language

and the ability to reassemble multiple protocol packets in order to, for

example, view a complete TCP stream, save the contents of a file which was

transferred over HTTP or CIFS, or play back an RTP audio stream.

Update Information:

New version 4.4.9

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora buffer overflow network analyzer null pointer wireshark

Change Log

* Mon Sep 1 2025 Michal Ruprich - 1:4.4.9-1 - New version 4.4.9

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2391531 - wireshark-4.4.9 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2391531 [ 2 ] Bug #2392868 - CVE-2025-9817 wireshark: NULL Pointer Dereference in Wireshark [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2392868

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-47268f5a30' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: wireshark
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 4.4.9
Release: 1.fc42
URL: http://www.wireshark.org/
Summary: Network traffic analyzer

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory fedora buffer overflow network analyzer null pointer wireshark

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