CVE-2013-3559

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-05-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

epan/dissectors/packet-dcp-etsi.c in the DCP ETSI dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.7 uses incorrect integer data types, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow, and heap memory corruption or NULL pointer dereference, and application crash) via a malformed packet.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
Opensuse: 11.4, 12.2, 12.3
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 1.8.0, 1.8.1, 1.8.2, 1.8.3, 1.8.4, 1.8.5 (+1)

References

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-dcp-etsi.c?r1=48644&r2=48643&pathrev=48644
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=48644
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00048.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00083.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00194.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00196.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0341.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/53425
http://secunia.com/advisories/54425
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2700
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-27.html

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