Vulnerability in Wireshark

CVE-2013-2482

The AMPQ dissector in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.14 and 1.8.x before 1.8.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a malformed packet.

Published 2013-03-07 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.011 (63.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

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 1.8.0, 1.8.1, 1.8.2
openSUSE — versions 11.4, 12.1, 12.2

References

www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-17.html (Vendor Advisory)
bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.14.html (Vendor Advisory)
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00065.html (vendor-advisory)
secunia.com/advisories/52471 (third-party-advisory)
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16677 (signature, vdb-entry)
www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.6.html (Vendor Advisory)
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00077.html (vendor-advisory)