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Wireshark : CVE-2023-0668 : IEEE C37.118 Synchrophasor dissector crash

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Wireshark : CVE-2023-0668 : IEEE C37.118 Synchrophasor dissector crash

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/07/2023
Created
09/25/2024
Added
09/24/2024
Modified
09/24/2024

Description

Due to failure in validating the length provided by an attacker-crafted IEEE-C37.118 packet, Wireshark version 4.0.5 and prior, by default, is susceptible to a heap-based buffer overflow, and possibly code execution in the context of the process running Wireshark.

Solution(s)

  • wireshark-upgrade-3_6_14
  • wireshark-upgrade-4_0_6

References

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