Input validation error in Wireshark - CVE-2023-3648

Vulnerability identifier: #VU79311

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-2023-3648

CWE-ID: CWE-20

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 insufficient validation of user-supplied input in Kafka dissector. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Wireshark
Amazon Linux AMI
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
SUSE Manager Server
SUSE Manager Proxy
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server
Desktop Applications Module
Basesystem Module
openSUSE Leap
openEuler
Anolis OS
wireshark-devel
wireshark-help
wireshark-debugsource
wireshark-debuginfo
wireshark
libwiretap12-debuginfo
libwireshark15-debuginfo
libwireshark15
libwsutil13
libwsutil13-debuginfo
libwiretap12
wireshark-ui-qt
wireshark-ui-qt-debuginfo
wireshark-cli
wireshark-doc

Install updates from vendor's website.

Wireshark - addressed in versions 3.6.15, 4.0.7
wireshark-devel - update to 3.6.14-2
wireshark-help - update to 3.6.14-2
wireshark-debugsource - update to 3.6.14-2
wireshark-debuginfo - update to 3.6.14-2
wireshark - update to 3.6.14-2
libwiretap12-debuginfo - update to 3.6.15-150000.3.97.1
libwireshark15-debuginfo - update to 3.6.15-150000.3.97.1
libwireshark15 - update to 3.6.15-150000.3.97.1
wireshark-debugsource - update to 3.6.15-150000.3.97.1
wireshark-debuginfo - update to 3.6.15-150000.3.97.1
libwsutil13 - update to 3.6.15-150000.3.97.1
wireshark-devel - update to 3.6.15-150000.3.97.1
wireshark - update to 3.6.15-150000.3.97.1
libwsutil13-debuginfo - update to 3.6.15-150000.3.97.1
libwiretap12 - update to 3.6.15-150000.3.97.1
wireshark-ui-qt - update to 3.6.15-150000.3.97.1
wireshark-ui-qt-debuginfo - update to 3.6.15-150000.3.97.1
wireshark - update to 4.0.7-1
wireshark - update to 4.0.10-1
wireshark-cli - update to 4.0.10-1
wireshark-devel - update to 4.0.10-1
wireshark-doc - update to 4.0.10-1

• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2023-21.html
• https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19105

• Multiple vulnerabilities in Wireshark
• SUSE update for wireshark
• openEuler update for wireshark
• Amazon Linux AMI update for wireshark
• Anolis OS update for wireshark