PT-2013-4477 · Wireshark+3 · Wireshark+3

Published 2013-05-25 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2013-3557

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wireshark versions 1.6.x through 1.6.14 Wireshark versions 1.8.x through 1.8.6

Description The issue is related to the dissect ber choice function in the ASN.1 BER dissector, which does not properly initialize a certain variable. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash, via a malformed packet.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 1.6.x through 1.6.14, update to version 1.6.15 or later. For Wireshark versions 1.8.x through 1.8.6, update to version 1.8.7 or later.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CESA-2013_1569

CVE-2013-3557

DSA-2700-1

MGASA-2013-0165

MGASA-2013-0168

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1

RHSA-2013:1569

RHSA-2013_1569

RHSA-2014:0341

RHSA-2014_0341

SUSE-SU-2015:0426-1

SUSE-SU-2015:0653-1

SUSE-SU-2015:1098-1

Affected Products

Centos

Red Hat

Suse

Wireshark

References · 389

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/fileformat/wireshark_mpeg_overflow.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8599 · Exploit
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5597 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00048.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-6059 · Security Note
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0341.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-6056 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4935 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-3557 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-3561 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4934 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4927 · Security Note
• http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=48944 · Patch
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-3557 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-3559 · Security Note