Vulnerability in Wireshark
CVE-2013-2478
The dissect_server_info function in epan/dissectors/packet-ms-mms.c in the MS-MMS dissector in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.14 and 1.8.x before 1.8.6 does not properly manage string lengths, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet that (1) triggers an integer overflow or (2) has embedded '\0' characters in a string.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 3.3 (Low). Vector: AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.011 (63.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 64th percentile — 63.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Wireshark — versions 1.6.0, 1.6.1, 1.6.2
- Debian Linux — versions 7.0
- openSUSE — versions 11.4, 12.1, 12.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk-1.8/epan/dissectors/packet-ms-mms.c
- www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.14.html
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00065.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-13.html (Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/52471 (third-party-advisory)
- www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.6.html
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00077.html (vendor-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16447 (signature, vdb-entry)
- anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc
- bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi