PT-2013-4838

CVE-2013-4078

Published

2013-06-09

Updated

2018-10-30

Description by

CVSS 2.0

5.0

Medium

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wireshark versions 1.8.x through 1.8.7

Description The issue is related to the RDP dissector in Wireshark, where it fails to validate return values during checks for data availability. This can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash, via a crafted packet.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 1.8.x through 1.8.7, update to version 1.8.8 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploitability

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Laurent Butti

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Related identifiers

CVE-2013-4078