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CVE-2023-0666

Published: Jun 7, 2023

Modified: Nov 3, 2025

PUBLISHED

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Wireshark Foundation	Wireshark	affected `4.0.0 - <= 4.0.5` unaffected `4.0.6`

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

https://takeonme.org/cves/CVE-2023-0666.html

third-party-advisory

https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19085

issue-tracking

https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-4.0.6.html

release-notes

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2023-18.html

vendor-advisory

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5429

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-02

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