PT-2013-3258

CVE-2013-1579

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 rtps util add bitmap function due to incorrect implementation of nested loops for processing bitmap data. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite 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-399

Related identifiers

CVE-2013-1579

DLA-497-1