Input validation error in Wireshark - CVE-2023-1992

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Input validation error in Wireshark - CVE-2023-1992

Published: April 12, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU75053
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-1992
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in RPC over RDMA dissector. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

Wireshark
Amazon Linux AMI
Gentoo Linux
Debian Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
SUSE CaaS Platform
SUSE Manager Proxy
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server
SUSE Manager Server
SUSE Enterprise Storage
Oracle Solaris
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS
Basesystem Module
Desktop Applications Module
openSUSE Leap
openEuler
Fedora
wireshark-debuginfo
wireshark
wireshark-debugsource
wireshark-devel
wireshark-help
libwiretap12-debuginfo
wireshark-ui-qt-debuginfo
libwireshark15
libwiretap12
libwireshark15-debuginfo
libwsutil13
wireshark-ui-qt
libwsutil13-debuginfo
net-analyzer/wireshark
wireshark (Debian package)

How to mitigate CVE-2023-1992

Install updates from vendor's website.

Wireshark - addressed in versions 3.6.13, 4.0.5
wireshark-debuginfo - update to 3.6.11-3
wireshark - update to 3.6.11-3
wireshark-debugsource - update to 3.6.11-3
wireshark-devel - update to 3.6.11-3
wireshark-help - update to 3.6.11-3
wireshark - addressed in versions 3.6.13-1.fc36, 4.0.5-1.fc37, 4.0.5-1.fc38
libwiretap12-debuginfo - update to 3.6.13-150000.3.89.1
wireshark-ui-qt-debuginfo - update to 3.6.13-150000.3.89.1
libwireshark15 - update to 3.6.13-150000.3.89.1
wireshark - update to 3.6.13-150000.3.89.1
libwiretap12 - update to 3.6.13-150000.3.89.1
wireshark-debugsource - update to 3.6.13-150000.3.89.1
libwireshark15-debuginfo - update to 3.6.13-150000.3.89.1
wireshark-debuginfo - update to 3.6.13-150000.3.89.1
libwsutil13 - update to 3.6.13-150000.3.89.1
wireshark-ui-qt - update to 3.6.13-150000.3.89.1
wireshark-devel - update to 3.6.13-150000.3.89.1
libwsutil13-debuginfo - update to 3.6.13-150000.3.89.1
wireshark - update to 4.0.5-1
net-analyzer/wireshark - update to 4.0.6
wireshark (Debian package) - update to 4.0.6-1~deb12u1

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