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CVE-2023-4512

wireshark: DoS (crash) via packet injection or crafted capture file

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · August 24, 2023

Updated · August 7, 2026

Description

A denial of service vulnerability was found in Wireshark due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in the CBOR protocol dissector. This issue could allow a remote attacker to inject a malformed packet onto the wire or persuade someone to read a corrupted packet trace file. The issue manifests as an uncontrolled recursion loop leading to a stack overflow, resulting in Wireshark crashing.

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-674 · Uncontrolled Recursion