CVE-2013-6337 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2013-6337?

CVE-2013-6337 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Wireshark Wireshark, published on 4 Nov 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in the NBAP dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.11 and 1.10.x before 1.10.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-6337?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Wireshark Wireshark.

How do I fix CVE-2013-6337?

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-2013-6337 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-6337 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Wireshark Wireshark

• CVE-2011-0444 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-2994 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-2995 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2009-1266 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2009-1210 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0

All Wireshark Wireshark vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-6337, GHSA-895f-5v39-pr25.