CVE-2013-2482

CVE-2013-2482 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the AMQP dissector of Wireshark versions 1.6.x before 1.6.14 and 1.8.x before 1.8.6, affecting products like openSUSE Wireshark. An attacker on the adjacent network can trigger an infinite loop by sending a specially crafted malformed packet. With a CVSS score of 6.1, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring low attack complexity and no authentication, leading to a complete loss of availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, indicating low current threat activity.