CVE-2013-2483 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2013-2483?

CVE-2013-2483 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, 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 acn_add_dmp_data function in epan/dissectors/packet-acn.c in the ACN dissector in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.14 and 1.8.x before 1.8.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash) via an invalid count value in ACN_DMP_ADT_D_RE DMP data.

Weakness: CWE-189

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-2483?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Opensuse Opensuse, Wireshark Wireshark.

How do I fix CVE-2013-2483?

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-2013-2483 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-2483 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

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

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-2483, GHSA-3424-fhhw-7h8h.