CVE-2023-0668

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

Publication date:

07/06/2023

Last modified:

03/11/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

6.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark::::::::	3.6.0 (including)	3.6.14 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark::::::::	4.0.0 (including)	4.0.6 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:12.0:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2023-0668

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools