CVE-2023-0668

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    CVE-2023-0668

    Published: 7 Jun 2023Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary: Wireshark IEEE-C37.118 parsing buffer overflow

    Details: Due to failure in validating the length provided by an attacker-crafted IEEE-C37.118 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-2023-0668.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-0668, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-02, https://takeonme.org/cves/CVE-2023-0668.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-2023-19.html, https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19087

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 3a34e44d02c9c91f9f851bd6f29ff4505131b127
    Fixed -83f40263b97ea6e41587240bbef8e0e467e55ea7

    Affected versions

    v3.6.14rc0
    v3.6.13
    v3.6.13rc0
    v3.6.12
    v3.6.12rc0
    v3.6.11
    v3.6.11rc0
    v3.6.10
    v3.6.10rc0
    v3.6.9
    v3.6.9rc0
    v3.6.8
    v3.6.8rc0
    v3.6.7
    v3.6.7rc0
    v3.6.6
    v3.6.6rc0
    v3.6.5
    v3.6.5rc0
    v3.6.4
    v3.6.4rc0
    v3.6.3
    v3.6.3rc0
    v3.6.2
    v3.6.2rc0
    v3.6.1
    v3.6.1rc0
    v3.6.0

    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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