CVE-2023-0668

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium

CVSS6.5

Exploit probability—

Product

Wireshark

PublishedJun 7, 2023

First seenJun 7, 2023

Weakness typeCWE-125Out-of-bounds read

How to fix

Update

wireshark wireshark3.6.14, 4.0.6 or later

Vendor advisories

wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-4.0.6.html
wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2023-19.html

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
wireshark wireshark	3.6.0 ≤ v < 3.6.14, 4.0.0 ≤ v < 4.0.6	3.6.14, 4.0.6
debian debian_linux	12.0	—

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