CVE-2013-4081 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2013-4081?

CVE-2013-4081 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 http_payload_subdissector function in epan/dissectors/packet-http.c in the HTTP dissector in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.16 and 1.8.x before 1.8.8 does not properly determine when to use a recursive approach, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption) via a crafted packet.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-4081?

It affects 3 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2013-4081?

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-2013-4081 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4081 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4081, GHSA-prrm-974p-fp53.