SB2013030701 - Division by zero in Wireshark
Published: March 7, 2013 Updated: July 28, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2013030701
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Adjecent network
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Division by zero (CVE-ID: CVE-2013-2483)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to divide-by-zero error within The acn_add_dmp_data function in epan/dissectors/packet-acn.c in the ACN dissector in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.14 and 1.8.x before 1.8.6. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash) via an invalid count value in ACN_DMP_ADT_D_RE DMP data.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-acn.c?r1=47692&r2=47691&pathrev=47692
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=47692
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00065.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00077.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52471
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2644
- http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.14.html
- http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.6.html
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-18.html
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8340
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16411