CVE-2013-4924

medium

Published 2013-07-30 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.0

Description

epan/dissectors/packet-dcom-sysact.c in the DCOM ISystemActivator dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.1 does not properly validate certain index values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) via a crafted packet.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1.10.1-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1.10.1-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`1.10.1-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`1.10.1-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1.10.1-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
wireshark	wireshark	`1.10.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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