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wireshark: DoS (crash) in the PPP CCP dissector (wnpa-sec-2013-26, upstream #8638)

Published May 25, 2013

Description

The dissect_ccp_bsdcomp_opt function in epan/dissectors/packet-ppp.c in the PPP CCP dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.7 does not terminate a bit-field list, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet.

Affected products

Remediation

Red Hat statement

Not Vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

Weaknesses (1)

References (18)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published May 25, 2013
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved May 20, 2013
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Low
Public date May 17, 2013
ENISA EUVD
Assigner mitre
Published May 25, 2013
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Exploited since n/a
EUVD-2013-3493