Buffer overflow in Wireshark - CVE-2013-3557

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Buffer overflow in Wireshark - CVE-2013-3557

Published: May 25, 2013 / Updated: July 28, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU32671
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-3557
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.

The dissect_ber_choice function in epan/dissectors/packet-ber.c in the ASN.1 BER dissector in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.15 and 1.8.x before 1.8.7 does not properly initialize a certain variable, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet.


Affected software

Wireshark
wireshark (Alpine package)

How to mitigate CVE-2013-3557

Install update from vendor's website.

Wireshark - update to 1.6.15
wireshark (Alpine package) - update to 1.6.15-r0

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