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openSUSE 15.6: Wireshark Moderate SSH Crash CVE-2025-9817

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Calendar Grey September 22, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Important enhancement for Fedora's GDB has resolved a significant buffer overflow issue in the HTTP module, increasing overall system protection.
An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Description

This update for wireshark fixes the following issues:

Update to version 4.2.13.

Security issues fixed:

* CVE-2025-9817: SSH dissector crash due to NULL pointer dereference when

processing malformed packet traces (bsc#1249090).

Other issues fixed:

* Bug in UDS dissector with Service ReadDataByPeriodicIdentifier Response.

* Incorrectly parsed `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` key following a name-

value byte sequence with no `=`.

* DNP3 time stamp not working after epoch time (year 2038).

* Bug in LZ77 decoder; reads a 16-bit length when it should read a 32-bit

length.

* Further features, bug fixes and updated protocol support as listed in:

* https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-4.2.13.html

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate malformed packet wireshark OpenSUSE ssh dissector

Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like

YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* openSUSE Leap 15.6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-3294=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-3294=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP6-2025-3294=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP7

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP7-2025-3294=1

* Desktop Applications Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Desktop-Applications-15-SP6-2025-3294=1

* Desktop Applications Module 15-SP7

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Desktop-Applications-15-SP7-2025-3294=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* wireshark-4.2.13-150600.18.26.1

* libwireshark17-debuginfo-4.2.13-150600.18.26.1

* wireshark-ui-qt-4.2.13-150600.18.26.1

* wireshark-devel-4.2.13-150600.18.26.1

* wireshark-debugsource-4.2.13-150600.18.26.1

* libwireshark17-4.2.13-150600.18.26.1

* libwiretap14-4.2.13-150600.18.26.1

* wireshark-ui-qt-debuginfo-4.2.13-150600.18.26.1

* libwiretap14-debuginfo-4.2.13-150600.18.26.1

* libwsutil15-4.2.13-150600.18.26.1

* libwsutil15-debuginfo-4.2.13-150600.18.26.1

* wireshark-debuginfo-4.2.13-150600.18.26.1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* wireshark-4.2.13-150600.18.26.1

* libwireshark17-debuginfo-4.2.13-150600.18.26.1

* wireshark-debugsource-4.2.13-150600.18.26.1

* libwireshark17-4.2.13-150600.18.26.1

* libwiretap14-4.2.13-150600.18.26.1

* libwiretap14-debuginfo-4.2.13-150600.18.26.1

* libwsutil15-4.2.13-150600.18.26.1

* libwsutil15-debuginfo-4.2.13-150600.18.26.1

* wireshark-debuginfo-4.2.13-150600.18.26.1

* Basesystem Module...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* bsc#1249090

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-9817.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1249090

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:03294-1
Release Date: 2025-09-22T14:11:03Z
Affected Products: * Basesystem Module 15-SP6 * Basesystem Module 15-SP7 * Desktop Applications Module 15-SP6 * Desktop Applications Module 15-SP7 * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate malformed packet wireshark OpenSUSE ssh dissector

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