Wireshark Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CNVD-2023-43872)

Wireshark is a free, open-source network protocol analyzer that helps users capture and analyze network packets.Wireshark can be used for a variety of purposes such as network troubleshooting, security auditing, etc. It is a very useful network tool. Wireshark has a security vulnerability. The vulnerability arises due to an issue with Wireshark parsing specific packets, which can lead to misplaced pointers, which can trigger a memory access error and cause the program to crash. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to cause a denial of service.