Vulnerability in Wireshark
CVE-2013-4935
The dissect_per_length_determinant function in epan/dissectors/packet-per.c in the ASN.1 PER dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.9 and 1.10.x before 1.10.1 does not initialize a length field in certain abnormal situations, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.027 (85.6th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 86th percentile — 85.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.027 · newest: 0.027 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Wireshark — versions 1.8.0, 1.8.1, 1.8.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/54371 (third-party-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00009.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/54178 (third-party-advisory)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0341.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/54425 (third-party-advisory)
- www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-52.html (Vendor Advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2734 (vendor-advisory)
- anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-per.c (Patch)
- www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.10.1.html
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml (vendor-advisory)