Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark RELOAD Dissector
CVE-2013-2486

Currently unrated

Key Information:

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

What is CVE-2013-2486?

The RELOAD dissector in Wireshark versions prior to 1.8.6 is vulnerable due to the dissect_diagnosticrequest function utilizing an incorrect integer data type. This flaw allows remote attackers to craft packets with specially designed integer values, potentially causing the application to enter an infinite loop and leading to a denial of service. Users of affected Wireshark versions are encouraged to update to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability.

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