| Name | CVE-2023-0668 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-5429-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| wireshark (PTS) | buster | 2.6.20-0+deb10u4 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 2.6.20-0+deb10u8 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 3.4.10-0+deb11u1 | vulnerable | |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 4.0.11-1~deb12u1 | fixed | |
| trixie | 4.2.2-1 | fixed | |
| sid | 4.2.2-1.1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wireshark | source | experimental | 4.0.6-1~exp1 | |||
| wireshark | source | buster | (not affected) | |||
| wireshark | source | bookworm | 4.0.6-1~deb12u1 | DSA-5429-1 | ||
| wireshark | source | (unstable) | 4.0.6-1 |
[bullseye] - wireshark <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - wireshark <not-affected> (vulnerable code introduced in 3.2)
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2023-19.html
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19087
Introduced by: https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/commit/254502d765d11f1d97b15bc1c3ff06d38e049ef2 (v3.1.1)