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SUSE Wireshark Moderate Buffer Overflow and Crash Fix 2026-2969-1

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Calendar Grey July 14, 2026
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This SUSE advisory details a moderate security update for wireshark addressing 15 vulnerabilities across multiple protocols.
A security update for Wireshark addresses 15 vulnerabilities including crashes and infinite loops in various protocol dissectors, applicable to several SUSE Linux Enterprise Server...

Summary

## This update for wireshark fixes the following issues * CVE-2026-5401: AFP dissector crash (bsc#1263756). * CVE-2026-5403: SBC audio codec crash (bsc#1263765). * CVE-2026-5404: K12 RF5 file parser crash (bsc#1263766). * CVE-2026-5406: FC-SWILS dissector crash (bsc#1263754). * CVE-2026-5407: SMB2 dissector infinite loop (bsc#1263753). * CVE-2026-5408: BT-DHT dissector crash (bsc#1263752). * CVE-2026-5653: DCP-ETSI dissector crash (bsc#1263750). * CVE-2026-6521: OpenFlow v5 protocol dissector infinite loops (bsc#1263744). * CVE-2026-6522: RPKI-Router protocol dissector infinite loop (bsc#1263743). * CVE-2026-6527: ASN.1 PER dissector crash (bsc#1263739). * CVE-2026-6532: Kismet protocol dissector crash (bsc#1263734).

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate SuSE memory leak crash wireshark

References

* bsc#1263725

* bsc#1263728

* bsc#1263731

* bsc#1263734

* bsc#1263739

* bsc#1263743

* bsc#1263744

* bsc#1263750

* bsc#1263752

* bsc#1263753

* bsc#1263754

* bsc#1263756

* bsc#1263758

* bsc#1263765

* bsc#1263766

Cross-

* CVE-2026-5401

* CVE-2026-5403

* CVE-2026-5404

* CVE-2026-5406

* CVE-2026-5407

* CVE-2026-5408

* CVE-2026-5653

* CVE-2026-6521

* CVE-2026-6522

* CVE-2026-6527

* CVE-2026-6532

* CVE-2026-6535

* CVE-2026-6538

* CVE-2026-6870

* CVE-2026-7379

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2026-5401 ( SUSE ): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2026-5401 ( NVD ): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2026-5403 ( SUSE ): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2026-5403 ( NVD ): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:2969-1
Release Date: 2026-07-14T11:23:14Z
Rating: moderate

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security advisory moderate SuSE memory leak crash wireshark

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