PT-2013-3257

CVE-2013-1578

Published

2013-02-02

Updated

2024-06-15

Description by

CVSS 2.0

2.9

Low

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wireshark versions 1.6.x through 1.6.12 Wireshark versions 1.8.x through 1.8.4

Description The issue exists in the dissect pw eth heuristic function due to incorrect handling of apparent Ethernet address values at the beginning of MPLS data. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (loop) via a malformed packet.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 1.6.x through 1.6.12, update to version 1.6.13 or later. For Wireshark versions 1.8.x through 1.8.4, update to version 1.8.5 or later.

Exploitability

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Laurent Butti

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Related identifiers

CVE-2013-1578

DLA-497-1