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CVE-2023-5371

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Date: October 4, 2023

RTPS dissector memory leak in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.8 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.16 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

Language: C

Severity Score

6.5

Related Resources (8)

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-09

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/34DBP5P2RHQ7XUABPANYYMOGV5KS6VEP/

Url: https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19322

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5371

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MADSCHKZSCKQ5NLIX3UMOIJD2JZ65L4V/

Url: https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2023-27.html

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-5371

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2023-5371

Severity Score

6.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value

CWE-789

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

CWE-770

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version wireshark-3.6.17,wireshark-4.0.9

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	6.5
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

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