RHSA-2025:9121MediumCVSS 7.5

Red Hat Security Advisory: wireshark security update

Published
June 16, 2025
Last Modified
August 6, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2025-1492 →

📋 Description

CVE-2025-1492 — wireshark: Uncontrolled Recursion in Wireshark

🎯 Affected products39

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
  • wireshark-1:4.4.2-3.el10_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • wireshark-1:4.4.2-3.el10_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • wireshark-1:4.4.2-3.el10_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • wireshark-1:4.4.2-3.el10_0.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • wireshark-1:4.4.2-3.el10_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • wireshark-cli-1:4.4.2-3.el10_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • wireshark-cli-1:4.4.2-3.el10_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • wireshark-cli-1:4.4.2-3.el10_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • wireshark-cli-1:4.4.2-3.el10_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • wireshark-cli-debuginfo-1:4.4.2-3.el10_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • wireshark-cli-debuginfo-1:4.4.2-3.el10_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
  • wireshark-cli-debuginfo-1:4.4.2-3.el10_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • wireshark-cli-debuginfo-1:4.4.2-3.el10_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
  • wireshark-cli-debuginfo-1:4.4.2-3.el10_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • wireshark-cli-debuginfo-1:4.4.2-3.el10_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
  • wireshark-cli-debuginfo-1:4.4.2-3.el10_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • wireshark-cli-debuginfo-1:4.4.2-3.el10_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
  • wireshark-debuginfo-1:4.4.2-3.el10_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • wireshark-debuginfo-1:4.4.2-3.el10_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
  • wireshark-debuginfo-1:4.4.2-3.el10_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • wireshark-debuginfo-1:4.4.2-3.el10_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
  • wireshark-debuginfo-1:4.4.2-3.el10_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • wireshark-debuginfo-1:4.4.2-3.el10_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
  • wireshark-debuginfo-1:4.4.2-3.el10_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • wireshark-debuginfo-1:4.4.2-3.el10_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
  • wireshark-debugsource-1:4.4.2-3.el10_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • wireshark-debugsource-1:4.4.2-3.el10_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
  • wireshark-debugsource-1:4.4.2-3.el10_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
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✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Workaround: No mitigation is available for this issue other than updating the affected package to the version containing the fix. However, by disabling BP and avoiding opening capture files from non trusted sources reduces the risk of triggering this vulnerability and crashing Wireshark.

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