Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2013-2477 to the following vulnerability: The CSN.1 dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.6 does not properly manage function pointers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet. References: [1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2477 [2] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=47888 [3] http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.6.html [4] http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-12.html [5] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8383
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-18 [bug 919496]
Statement: Not Vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.