CVE-2023-0666 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Due to failure in validating the length provided by an attacker-crafted RTPS 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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Debian	Debian Linux
Redhat	Enterprise Linux
Wireshark	Wireshark

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:12.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Package	CPE	Advisory	Released Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
wireshark-1:2.6.2-17.el8	cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8	RHSA-2023:7015	2023-11-14T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
wireshark-1:3.4.10-6.el9	cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9	RHSA-2023:6469	2023-11-07T00:00:00Z

References

Link	Providers
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19085
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-0666
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-02
https://takeonme.org/cves/CVE-2023-0666.html
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-0666
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5429
https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-4.0.6.html
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2023-18.html

History

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: AHA

Published: 2023-06-07T02:25:27.974Z

Updated: 2025-02-13T16:39:05.089Z

Reserved: 2023-02-03T22:06:14.542Z

Link: CVE-2023-0666

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T05:17:50.337Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-06-07T03:15:09.000

Modified: 2025-01-07T16:15:28.873

Link: CVE-2023-0666

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2023-05-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-0666 - Bugzilla

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