Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2013-2482 to the following vulnerability: The AMPQ dissector in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.14 and 1.8.x before 1.8.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a malformed packet. References: [1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2482 [2] http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.14.html [3] http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.6.html [4] http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-17.html [5] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8337
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-17 [bug 919494]
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-18 [bug 919496]
Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank Moshe Kaplan for reporting this issue.
Statement: Not Vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.