CVE-2023-1992 Denial of service in Wireshark

What is CVE-2023-1992?

CVE-2023-1992 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 12 Apr 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

RPCoRDMA dissector crash in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.4 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.12 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-1992?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Wireshark Wireshark.

How do I fix CVE-2023-1992?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2023-1992 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-1992 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2023-1992, GHSA-j3hh-fx42-vqq9, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-1992.