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CVE-2023-1161 json

ISO 15765 and ISO 10681 dissector crash in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.3 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.11 allows denial of service via packet injection or cr…

published 2023-03-06 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-23443

cvss
6.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 51%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

ISO 15765 and ISO 10681 dissector crash in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.3 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.11 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

Patch / fix

  • wireshark wireshark 3.6.12, 4.0.4
  • wireshark Debian 12 4.0.6-1~deb12u1
  • wireshark Debian 14, Debian 13 4.0.6-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-1161

  • wireshark SLE Real Time 15 SP3, SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP4, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP4 +1 more 3.6.12-150000.3.86.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2023:1762-1

  • wireshark openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.0.4-2.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:12785-1

  • wireshark Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +4 more 4.0.4-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2023-1161

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-1161 updated cvss 7.1

wireshark: ISO 15765 and ISO 10681 dissector crash

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 wireshark, wireshark-gnome Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 wireshark, wireshark-gnome
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 wireshark, wireshark-cli Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 wireshark, wireshark-cli
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
20 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.65% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 51% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD 3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

Affected products

  • Wireshark Foundation Wireshark

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.