Input validation error in Wireshark.org products - CVE-2013-2487

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

epan/dissectors/packet-reload.c in the REsource LOcation And Discovery (aka RELOAD) dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.6 uses incorrect integer data types, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via crafted integer values in a packet, related to the (1) dissect_icecandidates, (2) dissect_kinddata, (3) dissect_nodeid_list, (4) dissect_storeans, (5) dissect_storereq, (6) dissect_storeddataspecifier, (7) dissect_fetchreq, (8) dissect_findans, (9) dissect_diagnosticinfo, (10) dissect_diagnosticresponse, (11) dissect_reload_messagecontents, and (12) dissect_reload_message functions, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-2486.

How to mitigate CVE-2013-2487

Sources

• http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-reload.c?r1=47808&r2=47807&pathrev=47808
• http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=47808
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00065.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00077.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00048.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00083.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/52471
• http://secunia.com/advisories/53425
• http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.6.html
• http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-21.html
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8364
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16593