Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark by Riverbed Technology
CVE-2013-3559
Currently unrated
What is CVE-2013-3559?
The DCP ETSI dissector in Wireshark versions 1.8.x prior to 1.8.7 is susceptible to a denial of service attack due to improper handling of integer data types. This vulnerability can be exploited by remote attackers sending specially crafted packets, potentially resulting in severe impacts such as application crashes, integer overflow, and heap memory corruption. It's crucial for users to update their version of Wireshark to mitigate this issue.