CVE-2023-2879
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-05-26 00:00
Modified
2024-08-02 06:41
Severity ?
6.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Summary
GDSDB infinite loop in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.5 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.13 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file
References
cve@gitlab.comhttps://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2023/CVE-2023-2879.jsonThird Party Advisory
cve@gitlab.comhttps://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19068Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@gitlab.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00004.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@gitlab.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-02Third Party Advisory
cve@gitlab.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5429Third Party Advisory
cve@gitlab.comhttps://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2023-14.htmlVendor Advisory
Impacted products
Wireshark FoundationWireshark
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