CVE-2023-0666

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    CVE-2023-0666

    Published: 7 Jun 2023Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary: Wireshark RTPS Parsing Buffer Overflow

    Details: 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: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00049.html, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/0xxx/CVE-2023-0666.json, 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.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, https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19085

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0cbe09cd796b2ea24c6069b76ea16df7f51cf67b
    Fixed -ac2f5a01286addcb34ffb204e1eeb5fd8ccdb85c

    Affected versions

    v4.0.6rc0
    v4.0.5
    v4.0.5rc0
    v4.0.4
    v4.0.4rc0
    v4.0.3
    v4.0.3rc0
    v4.0.2
    v4.0.2rc0
    v4.0.1
    v4.0.1rc0
    v4.0.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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