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CVE-2013-4934

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-4934 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Wireshark versions 1.8.x before 1.8.9 and 1.10.x before 1.10.1. The flaw, located in the netmon_open function of the Netmon file parser, stems from uninitialized structure members, allowing remote attackers to crash the application via a specially crafted packet-trace file. With a CVSS score of 4.3, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring user interaction (opening a malicious file) and leading to an application crash. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.8.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.8.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.8.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.89%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0289 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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-2013-4934Low

wireshark: DoS (application crash) in the Netmon file parser (wnpa-sec-2013-51) (A different flaw than CVE-2013-4933)

Jul 26, 2013

References

anonsvn.wireshark.org / viewvc/trunk/wiretap/netmon.c
Patch
anonsvn.wireshark.org / viewvc
Patch
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00004.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00009.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0341.html
bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/54178
secunia.com / advisories/54296
secunia.com / advisories/54371
secunia.com / advisories/54425
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17584
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2013-51.html
Vendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2013/dsa-2734
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml
wireshark.org / docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.10.1.html
wireshark.org / docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.9.html