CVE-2013-4920
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5 · Memory corruption
5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
The P1 dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.1 does not properly initialize a global variable, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=50083 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=50083Patch
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-42.htmlAdvisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54296
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54425
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml
- http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.10.1.html
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8826
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17089