Infinite loop in Wireshark - CVE-2023-2879

Vulnerability identifier: #VU76492

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-2023-2879

CWE-ID: CWE-835

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

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

The vulnerability exists due to infinite loop within the GDSDB dissector. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application, consume all available system resources and cause denial of service conditions.

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

Install updates from vendor's website.

Wireshark - addressed in versions 3.6.14, 4.0.6
wireshark - update to 3.6.11-4
wireshark-devel - update to 3.6.11-4
wireshark-debuginfo - update to 3.6.11-4
wireshark-help - update to 3.6.11-4
wireshark-debugsource - update to 3.6.11-4
wireshark-debuginfo - addressed in versions 3.6.14-150000.3.92.1, 3.6.15-150000.3.97.1
libwsutil13-debuginfo - addressed in versions 3.6.14-150000.3.92.1, 3.6.15-150000.3.97.1
libwireshark15-debuginfo - addressed in versions 3.6.14-150000.3.92.1, 3.6.15-150000.3.97.1
libwireshark15 - addressed in versions 3.6.14-150000.3.92.1, 3.6.15-150000.3.97.1
libwsutil13 - addressed in versions 3.6.14-150000.3.92.1, 3.6.15-150000.3.97.1
wireshark-ui-qt - addressed in versions 3.6.14-150000.3.92.1, 3.6.15-150000.3.97.1
libwiretap12 - addressed in versions 3.6.14-150000.3.92.1, 3.6.15-150000.3.97.1
wireshark-devel - addressed in versions 3.6.14-150000.3.92.1, 3.6.15-150000.3.97.1
wireshark-ui-qt-debuginfo - addressed in versions 3.6.14-150000.3.92.1, 3.6.15-150000.3.97.1
wireshark - addressed in versions 3.6.14-150000.3.92.1, 3.6.15-150000.3.97.1
wireshark-debugsource - addressed in versions 3.6.14-150000.3.92.1, 3.6.15-150000.3.97.1
libwiretap12-debuginfo - addressed in versions 3.6.14-150000.3.92.1, 3.6.15-150000.3.97.1
net-analyzer/wireshark - update to 4.0.6
wireshark - update to 4.0.6-1
wireshark (Debian package) - update to 4.0.6-1~deb12u1

• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2023-14.html

• Multiple vulnerabilities in Wireshark
• SUSE update for wireshark
• Debian update for wireshark
• SUSE update for wireshark
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Oracle Solaris third-party software
• Gentoo update for Wireshark
• openEuler 22.03 LTS update for wireshark
• openEuler 22.03 LTS SP1 update for wireshark
• Amazon Linux AMI update for wireshark