CVE-2013-5717 Information

Description

The Bluetooth HCI ACL dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.2 does not properly maintain a certain free list which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet that is not properly handled by the wmem_block_alloc function in epan/wmem/wmem_allocator_block.c.

Reference

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=51130 https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8827 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A19030 https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-54.html

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