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CVE-2023-0667

Published: Jun 7, 2023

Modified: Nov 3, 2025

PUBLISHED

Description

Due to failure in validating the length provided by an attacker-crafted MSMMS packet, Wireshark version 4.0.5 and prior, in an unusual configuration, 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 `0 - <= 4.0.5` unaffected `4.0.6` affected `0 - <= 3.6.13` unaffected `3.6.14`

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

https://takeonme.org/cves/CVE-2023-0667.html

third-party-advisory

https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19086

issue-tracking

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

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