CVE-2013-3556 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the ASN.1 BER dissector of Wireshark, affecting versions prior to r48943, as well as various Debian and OpenSUSE distributions. The flaw, an incorrect pointer dereference in the fragment_add_seq_common function, can be triggered by a specially crafted malformed packet. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is considered medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, but only leading to an application crash. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.6.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.6.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.6.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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