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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7552-1
June 04, 2025

wireshark vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in Wireshark.

Software Description:
- wireshark: network traffic analyzer

Details:

It was discovered that Wireshark did not correctly handle recursion. If a
user or system were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an
attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This
issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-39929)

Roman Donchenko discovered that Wireshark did not correctly handle
parsing certain files. If a user or system were tricked into opening a
specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
(CVE-2021-4182)

It was discovered that Wireshark did not correctly handle parsing
certain files. If a user or system were tricked into opening a specially
crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial
of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS,
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-4185, CVE-2022-0581)

It was discovered that Wireshark did not correctly handle parsing
certain files. If a user or system were tricked into opening a specially
crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial
of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-4186)

Sharon Brizinov discovered that Wireshark did not correctly handle
parsing certain files. If a user or system were tricked into opening a
specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS,
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
(CVE-2022-0582, CVE-2022-0583, CVE-2022-0586)

Sharon Brizinov discovered that Wireshark did not correctly handle
parsing certain files. If a user or system were tricked into opening a
specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
(CVE-2022-0585)

Jason Cohen discovered that Wireshark did not correctly handle parsing
certain files. If a user or system were tricked into opening a specially
crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a
denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
(CVE-2022-3190)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
  libwireshark15                  3.6.2-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  tshark                          3.6.2-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  wireshark                       3.6.2-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  wireshark-common                3.6.2-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  wireshark-gtk                   3.6.2-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  wireshark-qt                    3.6.2-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  libwireshark13                  3.2.3-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  tshark                          3.2.3-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  wireshark                       3.2.3-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  wireshark-common                3.2.3-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  wireshark-gtk                   3.2.3-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  wireshark-qt                    3.2.3-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
  libwireshark11                  2.6.10-1~ubuntu18.04.0+esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  tshark                          2.6.10-1~ubuntu18.04.0+esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  wireshark                       2.6.10-1~ubuntu18.04.0+esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  wireshark-common                2.6.10-1~ubuntu18.04.0+esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  wireshark-gtk                   2.6.10-1~ubuntu18.04.0+esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  wireshark-qt                    2.6.10-1~ubuntu18.04.0+esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
  libwireshark11                  2.6.10-1~ubuntu16.04.0+esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  tshark                          2.6.10-1~ubuntu16.04.0+esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  wireshark                       2.6.10-1~ubuntu16.04.0+esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  wireshark-common                2.6.10-1~ubuntu16.04.0+esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  wireshark-gtk                   2.6.10-1~ubuntu16.04.0+esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  wireshark-qt                    2.6.10-1~ubuntu16.04.0+esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
  libwireshark11                  2.6.10-1~ubuntu14.04.0~esm3
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  tshark                          2.6.10-1~ubuntu14.04.0~esm3
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  wireshark                       2.6.10-1~ubuntu14.04.0~esm3
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  wireshark-common                2.6.10-1~ubuntu14.04.0~esm3
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  wireshark-gtk                   2.6.10-1~ubuntu14.04.0~esm3
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  wireshark-qt                    2.6.10-1~ubuntu14.04.0~esm3
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7552-1
  CVE-2021-39929, CVE-2021-4182, CVE-2021-4185, CVE-2021-4186,
  CVE-2022-0581, CVE-2022-0582, CVE-2022-0583, CVE-2022-0585,
  CVE-2022-0586, CVE-2022-3190