CVE-2013-5717

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-09-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The Bluetooth HCI ACL dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.2 does not properly maintain a certain free list, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet that is not properly handled by the wmem_block_alloc function in epan/wmem/wmem_allocator_block.c.

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 1.10.0, 1.10.1

References

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=51130
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8827
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19030
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-54.html
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=51130
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8827
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19030
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-54.html

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