CVE-2013-4920

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.

Published: Jul 30, 2013
Updated: Apr 13, 2023
CVE: CVE-2013-4920
Severity: Medium
Exploit:

CVSS v2:

Severity: Medium
Score: 5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWEs:

CWE-119

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
wireshark / wireshark	1.10.0	1.10.0.x

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=50083
http://secunia.com/advisories/54296
http://secunia.com/advisories/54425
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.10.1.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8826
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17089
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-42.html

Vulnerability Database

CVE-2013-4920