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CVE-2013-3559

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-3559 describes an integer overflow vulnerability in the DCP ETSI dissector of Wireshark versions 1.8.x before 1.8.7, affecting various Debian and openSUSE distributions. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service, leading to an application crash due to heap memory corruption or a NULL pointer dereference, by sending a specially crafted packet. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with low attack complexity and no authentication required, but only impacts availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:11.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0332 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.0.15-6.el5_10
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.8.10-4.el6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-3559Moderate

wireshark: DoS (crash) in the DCP ETSI dissector (wnpa-sec-2013-27, upstream #8231, #8540, #8541)

May 17, 2013

References

anonsvn.wireshark.org / viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-dcp-etsi.c
anonsvn.wireshark.org / viewvc
Patch
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00048.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00083.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00194.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00196.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0341.html
bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
Exploit
bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/53425
secunia.com / advisories/54425
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16228
debian.org / security/2013/dsa-2700
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2013-27.html
Vendor Advisory