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The write-up examines the GOG Windows 1.0 build, which discovers games over UDP port 54792 using DirectPlay.

Only Wireshark installs with LBMC fragment reassembly enabled are affected; ZDI rates it CVSS 7.5.

SANS notes that the 5.0.0rc1 candidate means a new major Wireshark version is expected soon.

Seven of ten tested stacks were vulnerable; quic-go, quiche, lsquic and Wireshark had fixes as of October 20, 2026.

11 min readhttp3 qpack

FoxIO released PoCs; quic-go, quiche, lsquic, and Wireshark are patched, while Bun, h3, and aioquic were not.

3 min readhttp3 qpack

Wireshark 4.6.9 and 4.4.19 patch 19 flaws, including code execution via a malicious profile.

Wireshark 4.6.9 patches 19 vulnerabilities and 16 bugs in the widely used network protocol analyzer.

ZDI disclosed a Wireshark RF4CE parsing buffer overflow enabling remote code execution, CVE-2026-96417.

Security researchers showed LG OLED TVs scan local networks and collect nearby device details, raising privacy concerns for TV owners.

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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