CVE-2013-5717

Wireshark 1.10.x - Denial of Service via Bluetooth HCI ACL Dissector

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The Bluetooth HCI ACL dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.2 does not properly maintain a certain free list, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet that is not properly handled by the wmem_block_alloc function in epan/wmem/wmem_allocator_block.c.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-54.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19030

Scores

EPSS 0.0021
EPSS Percentile 42.5%

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (2)
wireshark/wireshark 1.10.0
wireshark/wireshark 1.10.1
Published Sep 16, 2013
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026