High severity · published Dec 30, 2021
CVE-2021-4181
Crash in the Sysdig Event dissector in Wireshark 3.6.0 and 3.4.0 to 3.4.10 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file
7.5
CVSS
4.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)4.1% · higher than 91% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
34; 35 · source: NVD
HS
Http Server · Oracle
12.2.1.3.0; 12.2.1.4.0 · source: NVD
WI
Wireshark · Wireshark
3.4.0 before 3.4.11; 3.6.0 · source: NVD
ZS
Zfs Storage Appliance Kit · Oracle
8.8 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-4181
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-4181
Third Party Advisory
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-4181.json
Exploit
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/merge_requests/5429
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00041.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Q6XGBKWSQFCVYUN4ZK3O3NJIFP3OAFVT/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R5AEK3XTOIOGCGUILUFISMGX54YJXWGJ/
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-04
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