CVE-2023-0667

Wireshark MSMMS parsing buffer overflow

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Jun 7, 2023
Updated: Nov 3, 2025
Reserved: Feb 3, 2023

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

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Affected Products

Product	Versions
WiresharkWireshark Foundation	4.0.5 and earlierAffected 4.0.6Not affected 3.6.13 and earlierAffected 3.6.14Not affected

References

https://takeonme.org/cves/CVE-2023-0667.htmlthird-party-advisory
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19086issue-tracking
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-02
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00049.html

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