CVE-2013-3561

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-05-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Multiple integer overflows in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.7 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (loop or application crash) via a malformed packet, related to a crash of the Websocket dissector, an infinite loop in the MySQL dissector, and a large loop in the ETCH dissector.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0
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-etch.c?r1=48919&r2=48918&pathrev=48919
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-mysql.c?r1=48894&r2=48893&pathrev=48894
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-websocket.c?r1=48336&r2=48335&pathrev=48336
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=48336
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=48894
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=48919
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://secunia.com/advisories/53425
http://secunia.com/advisories/54425

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