FKIE_CVE-2023-0666
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-06-07 03:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 05:26
Severity
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| wireshark | wireshark | * | |
| debian | debian_linux | 12.0 |
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"lastModified": "2026-06-17T05:26:02.827",
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