PT-2013-6002 · Wireshark+4 · Wireshark+4

Published 2013-11-04 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2013-6340

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wireshark versions 1.8.x through 1.8.10 Wireshark versions 1.10.x through 1.10.2

Description The issue is related to the TCP dissector in Wireshark, where it fails to properly determine the amount of remaining data. 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 1.8.10, update to version 1.8.11 or later. For Wireshark versions 1.10.x through 1.10.2, update to version 1.10.3 or later.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2013-1068

CESA-2014_0342

CVE-2013-6340

DSA-2792-1

MGASA-2013-0347

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1

RHSA-2014:0342

RHSA-2014_0342

SUSE-SU-2015:0426-1

SUSE-SU-2015:0653-1

SUSE-SU-2015:1098-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Red Hat

Suse

Wireshark

References · 326

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/fileformat/wireshark_mpeg_overflow.rb · Exploit
• http://debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2792 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6339 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-2299 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-2281 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-6340 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6340 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-7112 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2013-1068 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-6340 · Vendor Advisory
• http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=52570 · Patch
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-2283 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6340 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6337 · Security Note
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0342.html · Vendor Advisory