Medium
Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value in Wireshark
Type: advisorySources: OSV
RTPS dissector memory leak in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.8 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.16 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-5371
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 7 Nov 2026, 13:36 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value in Wireshark
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 4 Oct 2023, 16:01 UTC
RTPS dissector memory leak in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.8 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.16 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file
osv:CVE-2023-5371
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-5371",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value in Wireshark",
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}
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"modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:50.753658697Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/34DBP5P2RHQ7XUABPANYYMOGV5KS6VEP/",
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MADSCHKZSCKQ5NLIX3UMOIJD2JZ65L4V/",
"https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2023-27.html",
"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/5xxx/CVE-2023-5371.json",
"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5371",
"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-09",
"https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19322"
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 519479,
"published_at": "2023-10-04T16:01:48.187+00:00"
}