CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-0668
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-06-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125, CWE-787
Description
Due to failure in validating the length provided by an attacker-crafted IEEE-C37.118 packet, Wireshark version 4.0.5 and prior, by default, is susceptible to a heap-based buffer overflow, and possibly code execution in the context of the process running Wireshark.
Affected configurations
• wireshark wireshark (>= 3.6.0 < 3.6.14)
• wireshark wireshark (>= 4.0.0 < 4.0.6)
• debian debian linux 12.0
Related
References
- https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19087 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-02 Third Party Advisory
- https://takeonme.org/cves/CVE-2023-0668.html Exploit
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5429 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-4.0.6.html Release Notes
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2023-19.html Vendor Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19087 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00049.html lists.debian.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-02 Third Party Advisory
- https://takeonme.org/cves/CVE-2023-0668.html Exploit
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5429 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-4.0.6.html Release Notes
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2023-19.html Vendor Advisory