PT-2013-4835 · Wireshark+3 · Wireshark+3

Published 2013-06-09 · Updated 2018-10-30 · CVE-2013-4075

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 1.8.x through 1.8.7

Description The issue is related to the GMR-1 BCCH dissector in Wireshark, where memory is not properly initialized. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash, by sending a crafted packet.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 1.8.x through 1.8.7, update to version 1.8.8 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider disabling the GMR-1 BCCH dissector until a patch is available.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CESA-2017_0631

CVE-2013-4075

DSA-2709-1

MGASA-2013-0181

RHSA-2017:0631

RHSA-2017_0631

SUSE-SU-2015:0426-1

SUSE-SU-2015:0653-1

SUSE-SU-2015:1098-1

Affected Products

Centos

Red Hat

Suse

Wireshark

References · 49

• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8726 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4075 · Vendor Advisory
• http://wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.8.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3811 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3812 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4075 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4075 · Security Note
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7664 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-4075 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4075 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4075 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4075 · Vendor Advisory
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2013-0181 · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2017-0631.html · Vendor Advisory