Bug 2429864 - CVE-2026-0961 wireshark: Wireshark: Denial of Service vulnerability in BLF file parser [fedora-42]
Summary: CVE-2026-0961 wireshark: Wireshark: Denial of Service vulnerability in BLF fi...
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Status: ON_QA
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: wireshark
Version: 42
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
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Assignee: Michal Ruprich
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["c6b3b0c2-c994-4efd-913a-3...
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Blocks: CVE-2026-0961
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Reported: 2026-01-15 06:45 UTC by Sandipan Roy
Modified: 2026-01-17 01:28 UTC (History)
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Description Sandipan Roy 2026-01-15 06:45:44 UTC 
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.
Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2026-01-16 11:03:08 UTC 
FEDORA-2026-eea5babc00 (wireshark-4.6.3-1.fc42) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 42.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-eea5babc00
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2026-01-17 01:28:08 UTC 
FEDORA-2026-eea5babc00 has been pushed to the Fedora 42 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-eea5babc00`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-eea5babc00

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
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