CVE-2013-3558

The dissect_ccp_bsdcomp_opt function in epan/dissectors/packet-ppp.c in the PPP CCP dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.7 does not terminate a bit-field list, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2013-05-25

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-189

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Opensuse (Opensuse)
• Wireshark (Wireshark)

References

• http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-ppp.c?r1=49214&r2=49213&pathrev=49214
• http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=49214
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00048.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00083.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00194.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00196.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/53425
• http://secunia.com/advisories/54425
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2700
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml
• http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-26.html
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8638
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16417