Red Hat Security Advisory: wireshark security update
🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)
📋 Description
CVE-2026-3201 — wireshark: Improperly Controlled Sequential Memory Allocation in Wireshark CVE-2026-3203 — wireshark: Buffer Over-read in Wireshark
🎯 Affected products39
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
- wireshark-1:4.4.2-4.el10_1.4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
- wireshark-1:4.4.2-4.el10_1.4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
- wireshark-1:4.4.2-4.el10_1.4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
- wireshark-1:4.4.2-4.el10_1.4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
- wireshark-1:4.4.2-4.el10_1.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
- wireshark-cli-1:4.4.2-4.el10_1.4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
- wireshark-cli-1:4.4.2-4.el10_1.4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
- wireshark-cli-1:4.4.2-4.el10_1.4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
- wireshark-cli-1:4.4.2-4.el10_1.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
- wireshark-cli-debuginfo-1:4.4.2-4.el10_1.4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
- wireshark-cli-debuginfo-1:4.4.2-4.el10_1.4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
- wireshark-cli-debuginfo-1:4.4.2-4.el10_1.4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
- wireshark-cli-debuginfo-1:4.4.2-4.el10_1.4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
- wireshark-cli-debuginfo-1:4.4.2-4.el10_1.4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
- wireshark-cli-debuginfo-1:4.4.2-4.el10_1.4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
- wireshark-cli-debuginfo-1:4.4.2-4.el10_1.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
- wireshark-cli-debuginfo-1:4.4.2-4.el10_1.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
- wireshark-debuginfo-1:4.4.2-4.el10_1.4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
- wireshark-debuginfo-1:4.4.2-4.el10_1.4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
- wireshark-debuginfo-1:4.4.2-4.el10_1.4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
- wireshark-debuginfo-1:4.4.2-4.el10_1.4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
- wireshark-debuginfo-1:4.4.2-4.el10_1.4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
- wireshark-debuginfo-1:4.4.2-4.el10_1.4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
- wireshark-debuginfo-1:4.4.2-4.el10_1.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
- wireshark-debuginfo-1:4.4.2-4.el10_1.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
- wireshark-debugsource-1:4.4.2-4.el10_1.4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
- wireshark-debugsource-1:4.4.2-4.el10_1.4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
- wireshark-debugsource-1:4.4.2-4.el10_1.4.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: If the USB HID protocol dissector is not being used, it can be disabled via the "Enabled Protocols" dialog box in the Wireshark GUI application. This will also disable the protocol dissector when using "tshark", the command line tool. See the links below for instructions to disable a protocol in Wireshark, specifically the "Control Protocol Dissection" section and the "disabled_protos" configuration file option. https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/ChCustProtocolDissectionSection.html https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/ChAppFilesConfigurationSection.html Workaround: If the RF4CE Profile protocol dissector is not being used, it can be disabled via the "Enabled Protocols" dialog box in the Wireshark GUI application. This will also disable the protocol dissector when using "tshark", the command line tool. See the links below for instructions to disable a protocol in Wireshark, specifically the "Control Protocol Dissection" section and the "disabled_protos" configuration file option. https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/ChCustProtocolDissectionSection.html https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/ChAppFilesConfigurationSection.html
🔗 References (5)
- selfhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:9666
- externalhttps://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2442639
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2442641
- selfhttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_9666.json