Wireshark LBMC reassembly bug allows remote code execution
Only Wireshark installs with LBMC fragment reassembly enabled are affected; ZDI rates it CVSS 7.5.
Only Wireshark installs with LBMC fragment reassembly enabled are affected; ZDI rates it CVSS 7.5.
ZDI rates the integer overflow 8.8 and says user interaction is required; no CVE is listed.
Only Wireshark instances with LoRaWAN decryption enabled are vulnerable; ZDI rates it CVSS 7.1.
The guide evaluates Cellebrite, Magnet Forensics, OpenText EnCase, and open-source tools like Wireshark and Autopsy for mobile, disk, and network forensics.
Seven of ten tested stacks were vulnerable; quic-go, quiche, lsquic and Wireshark had fixes as of October 20, 2026.
FoxIO released PoCs; quic-go, quiche, lsquic, and Wireshark are patched, while Bun, h3, and aioquic were not.
Wireshark 4.6.9 and 4.4.19 patch 19 flaws, including code execution via a malicious profile.
ZDI disclosed a Wireshark RF4CE parsing buffer overflow enabling remote code execution, CVE-2026-96417.
Wireshark 4.6.8 fixes 28 security bugs, including nine crash-prone capture file parsers, misdecoded 5G fields, and memory-safety issues.
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