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openSUSE: Wireshark Moderate Denial of Service Patch 2025:4440-1

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Calendar Grey December 17, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Update for wireshark addresses critical issues including denial of service and crashes with CVE-2025-13499 and CVE-2025-13946.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Description

This update for wireshark fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2025-13499: Fixed Kafka dissector crash due to malformed packet

(bsc#1254108).

* CVE-2025-13946: Fixed MEGACO dissector infinite loop that allows denial of

service (bsc#1254472).

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service wireshark OpenSUSE packet crash

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:

* Desktop Applications Module 15-SP7

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Desktop-Applications-15-SP7-2025-4440=1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-4440=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-4440=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP7

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP7-2025-4440=1

Package List

* Desktop Applications Module 15-SP7 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* wireshark-ui-qt-debuginfo-4.2.14-150600.18.32.1

* wireshark-debugsource-4.2.14-150600.18.32.1

* wireshark-debuginfo-4.2.14-150600.18.32.1

* wireshark-ui-qt-4.2.14-150600.18.32.1

* wireshark-devel-4.2.14-150600.18.32.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* libwiretap14-4.2.14-150600.18.32.1

* libwsutil15-debuginfo-4.2.14-150600.18.32.1

* wireshark-ui-qt-debuginfo-4.2.14-150600.18.32.1

* libwsutil15-4.2.14-150600.18.32.1

* wireshark-debugsource-4.2.14-150600.18.32.1

* libwiretap14-debuginfo-4.2.14-150600.18.32.1

* wireshark-4.2.14-150600.18.32.1

* libwireshark17-4.2.14-150600.18.32.1

* wireshark-debuginfo-4.2.14-150600.18.32.1

* wireshark-ui-qt-4.2.14-150600.18.32.1

* libwireshark17-debuginfo-4.2.14-150600.18.32.1

* wireshark-devel-4.2.14-150600.18.32.1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP7 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* libwiretap14-4.2.14-150600.18.32.1

* libwsutil15-debuginfo-4.2.14-150600.18.32.1

*...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* bsc#1254108

* bsc#1254472

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-13499.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-13946.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1254108

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1254472

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:4440-1
Release Date: 2025-12-17T15:44:46Z
Affected Products: * Basesystem Module 15-SP7 * Desktop Applications Module 15-SP7 * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service wireshark OpenSUSE packet crash

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