CVE-2013-2475 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2013-2475?

CVE-2013-2475 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Opensuse Opensuse, published on 7 Mar 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The TCP dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-2475?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Opensuse Opensuse, Wireshark Wireshark.

How do I fix CVE-2013-2475?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2013-2475 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-2475 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Opensuse Opensuse

• CVE-2015-5957 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2015-0491 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2008-2388 Integer overflow in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-1866 Integer overflow in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-0492 Other in n/a Critical 9.3

All Opensuse Opensuse vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-2475, GHSA-f45f-c9q4-rqr3.