CVE-2013-5717

N/A Unknown
Published: September 16, 2013 Modified: April 29, 2026
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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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=51130
Source: cve@mitre.org
Patch
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8827
Source: cve@mitre.org
Patch
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19030
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-54.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
Patch Vendor Advisory
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=51130
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8827
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19030
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-54.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch Vendor Advisory

8 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
0.2%
42th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-20

Affected Vendors

wireshark

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