CVE-2013-1579

CVE-2013-1579 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the RTPS dissector of Wireshark versions 1.6.x before 1.6.13 and 1.8.x before 1.8.5. A remote attacker can exploit a flaw in the rtps_util_add_bitmap function's handling of nested loops with malformed packets, leading to an infinite loop. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 2.9, indicating a low severity, as it requires network access and medium attack complexity to achieve a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.