CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-4920
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-07-30
- 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 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.
Affected configurations
• wireshark wireshark 1.10.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=50083 Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54296 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54425 secunia.com
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml www.gentoo.org
- http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.10.1.html www.wireshark.org
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8826 bugs.wireshark.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17089 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-42.html Vendor Advisory
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=50083 Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54296 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54425 secunia.com
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml www.gentoo.org
- http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.10.1.html www.wireshark.org
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8826 bugs.wireshark.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17089 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-42.html Vendor Advisory