CVE-2023-2906

Summary

CVECVE-2023-2906
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-08-25 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-09-15 22:15:00 UTC
DescriptionDue 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-369

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Wireshark Wireshark All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: wireshark-4.0.8-2.fc37 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists MISC lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 39 Update: wireshark-4.0.8-2.fc39 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists MISC lists.fedoraproject.org
CP2179 Parsing Divide By Zero (#19229) · Issues · Wireshark Foundation / Wireshark · GitLab MISC gitlab.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: wireshark-4.0.8-2.fc38 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists MISC lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE-2023-2906 • Austin Hackers Academy MISC takeonme.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 285276 Fedora Security Update for wireshark (FEDORA-2023-b57a9be8a8)
  • 296105 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 63.157.1 Missing (CPUOCT2023)
  • 356119 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for wireshark : ALAS2023-2023-348
  • 6000333 Debian Security Update for wireshark (DSA 5559-1)
  • 754926 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for wireshark (SUSE-SU-2023:3778-1)
  • 907271 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for wireshark (28486-1)
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