| Name | CVE-2023-2906 |
| 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.
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| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-3906-1, DSA-5559-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| 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+deb10u9~deb9u1 | fixed |
| buster, buster (lts) | 2.6.20-0+deb10u9 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 2.6.20-0+deb10u8 | fixed |
| bullseye | 3.4.10-0+deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 3.4.16-0+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 4.0.17-0+deb12u1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 4.0.11-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie | 4.4.0-1 | fixed |
| sid | 4.4.2-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[buster] - wireshark <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced in 3.0.0)
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2023-26.html
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19229
Introduced by https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/commit/4ff777d5ce1d9951a1edbf7ffa914a12a00bb2b3 (v2.9.0)
[stretch] - wireshark <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced in 3.0.0)
[jessie] - wireshark <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced in 3.0.0)