| Name | CVE-2013-3557 |
| Description | The dissect_ber_choice function in epan/dissectors/packet-ber.c in the ASN.1 BER dissector in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.15 and 1.8.x before 1.8.7 does not properly initialize a certain variable, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-2700-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 709167 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| wireshark (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u19 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 2.6.20-0+deb9u3 | fixed | |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 2.6.20-0+deb10u9~deb9u1 | fixed | |
| buster, buster (lts) | 2.6.20-0+deb10u9 | fixed | |
| buster (security) | 2.6.20-0+deb10u8 | fixed | |
| bullseye | 3.4.10-0+deb11u1 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security) | 3.4.16-0+deb11u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 4.0.17-0+deb12u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm (security) | 4.0.11-1~deb12u1 | fixed | |
| trixie | 4.4.0-1 | fixed | |
| sid | 4.4.2-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wireshark | source | squeeze | 1.2.11-6+squeeze11 | |||
| wireshark | source | wheezy | 1.8.2-5wheezy3 | DSA-2700-1 | ||
| wireshark | source | (unstable) | 1.8.7-1 | unimportant | 709167 |
Not suitable for code injection