CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
AI Score
Confidence
Low
EPSS
Percentile
80.2%
Wireshark is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:wireshark:wireshark";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.803618");
script_version("2024-07-22T05:05:40+0000");
script_cve_id("CVE-2013-3557", "CVE-2013-3556");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-07-22 05:05:40 +0000 (Mon, 22 Jul 2024)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2013-05-28 13:30:52 +0530 (Tue, 28 May 2013)");
script_name("Wireshark ASN.1 BER Dissector DoS Vulnerability (May 2013) - Windows");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://secunia.com/advisories/53425");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59997");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/60021");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-25.html");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2013 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("gb_wireshark_detect_win.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("wireshark/windows/detected");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow remote attackers to cause denial of
service by injecting a malformed packet.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.15 and 1.8.x before 1.8.7 on Windows");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"- 'fragment_add_seq_common' function in epan/reassemble.c has an incorrect
pointer dereference.
- 'dissect_ber_choice' function in epan/dissectors/packet-ber.c does not
properly initialize variables.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to the Wireshark version 1.6.15 or 1.8.7 or later.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Wireshark is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if(!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe:CPE, exit_no_version:TRUE))
exit(0);
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if(version=~ "^1\.[68]") {
if(version_in_range(version:version, test_version:"1.6.0", test_version2:"1.6.14") ||
version_in_range(version:version, test_version:"1.8.0", test_version2:"1.8.6")){
security_message(port:0, data:"The target host was found to be vulnerable");
exit(0);
}
}