Double free vulnerability in epan/proto.c in the dissection engine in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.13 and 1.8.x before 1.8.5 allows remote…

Description

Double free vulnerability in epan/proto.c in the dissection engine in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.13 and 1.8.x before 1.8.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.86% · top 41% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.9.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-399 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-399 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/proto.c?r1=47114&r2=47113&pathrev=47114 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-08.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16319 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2013:0285 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8197 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2013:0276 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=47114 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 15:04 UTC.