CVE-2023-0417

wireshark: NFS dissector memory leak

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · January 27, 2023

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in the NFS dissector of Wireshark. This issue occurs when decoding malformed packets from a pcap file or from the network, causing excessive consumption of resources, resulting in a Denial of Service.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-789 · Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value