CVE-2013-4920

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.

References

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

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

http://secunia.com/advisories/54296

http://secunia.com/advisories/54425

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

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2