CVE-2023-2906 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Due to a failure in validating the length provided by an attacker-crafted CP2179 packet, Wireshark versions 2.0.0 through 4.0.7 is susceptible to a divide by zero allowing for a denial of service attack.

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
Wireshark	Wireshark

Configuration 1 [-]

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

No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19229
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6HCUPLDY7HLPO46PHMGIJSUBJFTT237C/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/L4AVRUYSHDNEAJILVSGY5W6MPOMG2YRF/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TRKHFQPWFU7F3OXTL6IEIQSJG6FVXZTZ/
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2906
https://takeonme.org/cves/CVE-2023-2906.html
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-2906

History

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description	Due to a failure in validating the length provided by an attacker-crafted CP2179 packet, Wireshark versions 2.0.0 through 4.0.7 is susceptible to a divide by zero allowing for a denial of service attack.	Due to a failure in validating the length provided by an attacker-crafted CP2179 packet, Wireshark versions 2.0.0 through 4.0.7 is susceptible to a divide by zero allowing for a denial of service attack.

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 15:30:00 +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: 2023-08-25T20:41:19.403Z

Updated: 2025-02-13T16:48:59.769Z

Reserved: 2023-05-26T00:46:14.391Z

Link: CVE-2023-2906

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T06:41:04.072Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-08-25T21:15:07.963

Modified: 2025-02-13T17:16:23.153

Link: CVE-2023-2906

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2023-08-25T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-2906 - Bugzilla

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