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CVE-2013-3557

Date: May 24, 2013

The dissect_ber_choice function in epan/dissectors/packet-ber.c in the ASN.1 BER dissector in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.15 and 1.8.x before 1.8.7 does not properly initialize a certain variable, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.3

Related Resources (20)

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00083.html

Url: http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=48944

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2700

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00194.html

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16521

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/54425

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:172

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/53425

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-3557

Url: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8599

Url: http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-ber.c?r1=48944&r2=48943&pathrev=48944

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-3557

Url: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-3557

Url: https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.15.html

Url: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-25.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00048.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00196.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0341.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2013-3557

Severity Score

5.3

Weakness Type (CWE)

Buffer Errors

CWE-119

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.3
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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CVE-2013-3557

Date: May 24, 2013

Language: C

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CVSS v2

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