CVE-2013-4920

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-07-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 1.10.0

References

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
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

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