CVE-2013-4920

Published: Jul 30, 2013Modified: Apr 29, 2026

5.0

Vector

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

Exploitability: 10.0 / Impact: 2.9

Source: NVD

Description

The P1 dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.1 does not properly initialize a global variable, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

Affected (1)

Products: Wireshark: Wireshark

Wireshark

1 product

Wireshark

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Wireshark Wireshark	Version 1.10.0

Related CWEs

CWE-119

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

References (16)

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=50083

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch

http://secunia.com/advisories/54296

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/54425

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.10.1.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8826

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17089

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-42.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=50083