Name | CVE-2023-0666 |
Description | 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. |
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 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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wireshark (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u19 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 2.6.20-0+deb9u3 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 2.6.20-0+deb9u7 | fixed |
| 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 (security), bookworm | 4.0.11-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 4.2.4-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[bullseye] - wireshark <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - wireshark <not-affected> (vulnerable code introduced in 3.4)
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2023-18.html
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19085
Introduced by: https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/commit/77d94aea243c3eca2be4749fce3145218fdf8b29 (v3.3.0)
[stretch] - wireshark <not-affected> (vulnerable code introduced in 3.4)
[jessie] - wireshark <not-affected> (vulnerable code introduced in 3.4)