Medium
Wireshark MSMMS parsing buffer overflow
Type: advisorySources: OSV
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
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-0667
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 2 Nov 2026, 22:42 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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
osv:CVE-2023-0667
Complete source record
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"title": "Wireshark MSMMS parsing buffer overflow",
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"modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:23.944726973Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/0xxx/CVE-2023-0667.json",
"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-0667",
"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-02",
"https://takeonme.org/cves/CVE-2023-0667.html",
"https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19086"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 490625,
"published_at": "2023-06-07T02:38:07.798+00:00"
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