CVE-2013-4074 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2013-4074?

CVE-2013-4074 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 9 Jun 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The dissect_capwap_data function in epan/dissectors/packet-capwap.c in the CAPWAP dissector in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.16 and 1.8.x before 1.8.8 incorrectly uses a -1 data value to represent an error condition, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

Weakness: CWE-189

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-4074?

It affects 3 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2013-4074?

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-2013-4074 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2013-4074 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Metasploit module and 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

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

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4074, GHSA-xp6r-3p5r-p29g.