CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-4082
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-06-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
The vwr_read function in wiretap/vwr.c in the Ixia IxVeriWave file parser in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.8 does not validate the relationship between a record length and a trailer length, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) via a crafted packet.
Affected configurations
• wireshark wireshark 1.8.0
• wireshark wireshark 1.8.1
• wireshark wireshark 1.8.2
• wireshark wireshark 1.8.3
• wireshark wireshark 1.8.4
• wireshark wireshark 1.8.5
• wireshark wireshark 1.8.6
• wireshark wireshark 1.8.7
• debian debian linux 7.0
• opensuse opensuse 11.4
• opensuse opensuse 12.2
• opensuse opensuse 12.3
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/wiretap/vwr.c?r1=49739&r2=49738&pathrev=49739 Patch
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=49739 Patch
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00194.html Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00196.html Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/53762 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54425 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2709 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml www.gentoo.org
- http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.8.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-40.html Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8760 Patch
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16886 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/wiretap/vwr.c?r1=49739&r2=49738&pathrev=49739 Patch
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=49739 Patch
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00194.html Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00196.html Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/53762 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54425 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2709 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml www.gentoo.org
- http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.8.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-40.html Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8760 Patch
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16886 oval.cisecurity.org