CVE-2013-5717
EPSS 0.21%
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.
How to fix CVE-2013-5717
To remediate CVE-2013-5717, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/wireshark—upgrade to 1.10.2-1 or later
Is CVE-2013-5717 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 1.10.2-1