CVE-2013-4920

Wireshark 1.10.x - Denial of Service via P1 Dissector Global Variable Initialization

Title source: llm

Description

The P1 dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.1 does not properly initialize a global variable, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

References (8)

Core 8

Core References

Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8826

Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia

http://secunia.com/advisories/54425

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-42.html

Various Sources x_refsource_confirm

http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.10.1.html

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17089

Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia

http://secunia.com/advisories/54296

Patch x_refsource_confirm

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=50083

Scores

EPSS 0.0035

EPSS Percentile 57.5%

Details

CWE

CWE-119

Status published

Products (1)

wireshark/wireshark 1.10.0

Published Jul 30, 2013

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026