CVE-2013-1583

CVE-2013-1583 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the DTN dissector of Wireshark versions 1.6.x prior to 1.6.13 and 1.8.x prior to 1.8.5. An attacker on the adjacent network can exploit this by sending a specially crafted, malformed packet, leading to an application crash due to an inappropriate pointer access. The CVSS score of 2.9 indicates low severity, with an adjacent attack vector and medium attack complexity, resulting in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.