CVE-2013-3557

Name	CVE-2013-3557
Description	The dissect_ber_choice function in epan/dissectors/packet-ber.c in the ASN.1 BER dissector in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.15 and 1.8.x before 1.8.7 does not properly initialize a certain variable, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-2700-1
Debian Bugs	709167

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
wireshark (PTS)	buster	2.6.20-0+deb10u4	fixed
	buster (security)	2.6.20-0+deb10u8	fixed
	bullseye, bullseye (security)	3.4.10-0+deb11u1	fixed
	bookworm, bookworm (security)	4.0.11-1~deb12u1	fixed
	trixie	4.2.2-1	fixed
	sid	4.2.2-1.1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
wireshark	source	squeeze	1.2.11-6+squeeze11
wireshark	source	wheezy	1.8.2-5wheezy3		DSA-2700-1
wireshark	source	(unstable)	1.8.7-1	unimportant		709167

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