CVE-2013-3556

Wireshark - Denial of Service via ASN.1 BER Dissector Pointer Dereference

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The fragment_add_seq_common function in epan/reassemble.c in the ASN.1 BER dissector in Wireshark before r48943 has an incorrect pointer dereference during a comparison, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet.

References (12)

Core 12
Core References
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/53425
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00048.html
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/54425
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-25.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00196.html
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00083.html
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00194.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0154
EPSS Percentile 81.6%

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (26)
debian/debian_linux 7.0
opensuse/opensuse 11.4
opensuse/opensuse 12.2
opensuse/opensuse 12.3
wireshark/wireshark 1.6.0
wireshark/wireshark 1.6.1
wireshark/wireshark 1.6.2
wireshark/wireshark 1.6.3
wireshark/wireshark 1.6.4
wireshark/wireshark 1.6.5
... and 16 more
Published May 25, 2013
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026