CVE-2013-4920 Information

Description

The P1 dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.1 does not properly initialize a global variable which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

Reference

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=50083 http://secunia.com/advisories/54296 http://secunia.com/advisories/54425 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.10.1.html https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8826 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A17089 https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-42.html