CVE-2013-4082

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-06-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The vwr_read function in wiretap/vwr.c in the Ixia IxVeriWave file parser in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.8 does not validate the relationship between a record length and a trailer length, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) via a crafted packet.

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 (+2)

References

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/wiretap/vwr.c?r1=49739&r2=49738&pathrev=49739
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=49739
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00194.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00196.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/53762
http://secunia.com/advisories/54425
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2709
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.8.html
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-40.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8760
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16886

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