VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-1589

low
Published 2013-02-03 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v2
2.9
VIR risk
2.9

Description

Double free vulnerability in epan/proto.c in the dissection engine in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.13 and 1.8.x before 1.8.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-1589

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-08.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/proto.c?r1=47114&r2=47113&pathrev=47114

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1.8.6-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.8.6-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.8.6-1
debian debiansidfixed1.8.6-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.8.6-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
wiresharkwireshark1.6.0
wiresharkwireshark1.6.1
wiresharkwireshark1.6.2
wiresharkwireshark1.6.3
wiresharkwireshark1.6.4
wiresharkwireshark1.6.5
wiresharkwireshark1.6.6
wiresharkwireshark1.6.7
wiresharkwireshark1.6.8
wiresharkwireshark1.6.9
wiresharkwireshark1.6.10
wiresharkwireshark1.6.11
wiresharkwireshark1.6.12
wiresharkwireshark1.8.0
wiresharkwireshark1.8.1
wiresharkwireshark1.8.2
wiresharkwireshark1.8.3
wiresharkwireshark1.8.4

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.