CVE-2013-2477 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=47888 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00065.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00077.html http://secunia.com/advisories/52471 http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.6.html http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-12.html https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8383 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A16589