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CVE-2013-4083

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-4083 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Wireshark DCP ETSI dissector, affecting versions 1.6.x before 1.6.16, 1.8.x before 1.8.8, and 1.10.0. The flaw stems from insufficient validation of a fragment length value in crafted packets, leading to an application crash. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, as it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity to cause a partial denial of service. 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
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 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
3.28%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0328 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 23,723 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-2013-4083Moderate

wireshark: Invalid free in the DCP ETSI dissector (wnpa-sec-2013-41)

Jun 7, 2013

References

anonsvn.wireshark.org / viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-dcp-etsi.c
anonsvn.wireshark.org / viewvc
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
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/53762
secunia.com / advisories/54296
secunia.com / advisories/54425
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16375
debian.org / security/2013/dsa-2709
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml
mandriva.com / security/advisories
wireshark.org / docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.10.1.html
wireshark.org / docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.16.html
wireshark.org / docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.8.html
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2013-41.html