PT-2013-4838 · Wireshark+1 · Wireshark+1

Laurent Butti · Published 2013-06-09 · Updated 2018-10-30 · CVE-2013-4078

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 RDP dissector in Wireshark, where it fails to validate return values during checks for data availability. This can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash, via 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.

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-4078

DSA-2709-1

MGASA-2013-0181

SUSE-SU-2015:0426-1

SUSE-SU-2015:0653-1

SUSE-SU-2015:1098-1

Affected Products

Suse

Wireshark

References · 33

• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8729 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7862 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4078 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4078 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4078 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-4078 · Vendor Advisory
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4078 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2013-0181 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4078 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00194.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2709 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4078 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00196.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0181.html · Security Note