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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2023-0667: Security patch for wireshark (ALAS-2023-1785)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2023-0667: Security patch for wireshark (ALAS-2023-1785)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/07/2023
Created
07/21/2023
Added
07/20/2023
Modified
09/08/2023

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

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-wireshark

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