CVE-2023-0417

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2023-01-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-404

Description

Memory leak in the NFS dissector in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.2 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.10 and allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: from 3.6.0 through 3.6.10; from 4.0.0 through 4.0.2

References

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2023/CVE-2023-0417.json
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/18628
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00007.html
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2023-02.html
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2023/CVE-2023-0417.json
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/18628
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00007.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00049.html
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2023-02.html

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