ALAS-2023-1785

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-0667  

Due to failure in validating the length provided by an attacker-crafted MSMMS packet, Wireshark version 4.0.5 and prior, in an unusual configuration, is susceptible to a heap-based buffer overflow, and possibly code execution in the context of the process running Wireshark. (CVE-2023-0667)

ALAS-2023-1785


Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-1785
Advisory Release Date: 2023-07-13 23:57 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-07-19 21:51 Pacific
Severity: Low

Issue Overview:

Due to failure in validating the length provided by an attacker-crafted MSMMS packet, Wireshark version 4.0.5 and prior, in an unusual configuration, is susceptible to a heap-based buffer overflow, and possibly code execution in the context of the process running Wireshark. (CVE-2023-0667)


Affected Packages:

wireshark


Issue Correction:
Run yum update wireshark to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    wireshark-devel-1.8.10-25.24.amzn1.i686
    wireshark-debuginfo-1.8.10-25.24.amzn1.i686
    wireshark-1.8.10-25.24.amzn1.i686

src:
    wireshark-1.8.10-25.24.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    wireshark-devel-1.8.10-25.24.amzn1.x86_64
    wireshark-debuginfo-1.8.10-25.24.amzn1.x86_64
    wireshark-1.8.10-25.24.amzn1.x86_64