Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark by Riverbed Technology
CVE-2013-2480

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor

Opensuse
Status
Opensuse
Debian Linux
Vendor
CVE Published:
7 March 2013

What is CVE-2013-2480?

The RTPS and RTPS2 dissectors in Wireshark versions 1.6.x prior to 1.6.14 and 1.8.x prior to 1.8.6 are vulnerable to a denial of service attack. Remote attackers can exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted packets to the application, leading to an unexpected crash and interruption of service.

References

http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.14.html
x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/...
vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg000...
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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