CVE-2023-2906

medium

Description

Due to a failure in validating the length provided by an attacker-crafted CP2179 packet, Wireshark versions 2.0.0 through 4.0.7 is susceptible to a divide by zero allowing for a denial of service attack.

References

https://takeonme.org/cves/CVE-2023-2906.html

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/TRKHFQPWFU7F3OXTL6IEIQSJG6FVXZTZ/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/L4AVRUYSHDNEAJILVSGY5W6MPOMG2YRF/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/6HCUPLDY7HLPO46PHMGIJSUBJFTT237C/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00049.html

https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19229

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-08-25

Updated: 2025-11-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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