Wireshark 4.4.7 Network Protocol Analyzer Patches Security Flaw And Fixes Bugs
9to5Linux, Tuesday, June 17th, 2025
It patches a security vulnerability that could allow a denial of service attack via packet injection or crafted capture file.
Wireshark 4.4.7 has been released today as the seventh maintenance update to the latest Wireshark 4.4 stable series of this popular network protocol analyzer software for Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.
Wireshark 4.4.7 is here to patch a security vulnerability (CVE-2025-5601) that could allow a denial of service attack via packet injection or crafted capture file in Wireshark versions 4.4.0 to 4.4.6 and 4.2.0 to 4.2.12 due to a bug in the column utility module that leads to a dissection engine crash.