{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2013-2488","details":"The DTLS dissector in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.14 and 1.8.x before 1.8.6 does not validate the fragment offset before invoking the reassembly state machine, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large offset value that triggers write access to an invalid memory location.","modified":"2025-07-16T07:47:30.344640Z","published":"2013-03-07T15:55:00Z","withdrawn":"2025-07-18T16:42:52Z","upstream":["CVE-2013-2488"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-2488"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8380"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-22.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.6.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.14.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=48011"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-2488"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"wireshark","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/wireshark@1.10.6-1?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.10.6-1"}]}],"versions":["1.10.2-1","1.10.3-1","1.10.5-1ubuntu1","1.10.5-2"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No subscription required","binaries":[{"binary_version":"1.10.6-1","binary_name":"libwireshark-data"},{"binary_version":"1.10.6-1","binary_name":"libwireshark-dev"},{"binary_version":"1.10.6-1","binary_name":"libwireshark3"},{"binary_version":"1.10.6-1","binary_name":"libwiretap-dev"},{"binary_version":"1.10.6-1","binary_name":"libwiretap3"},{"binary_version":"1.10.6-1","binary_name":"libwsutil-dev"},{"binary_version":"1.10.6-1","binary_name":"libwsutil3"},{"binary_version":"1.10.6-1","binary_name":"tshark"},{"binary_version":"1.10.6-1","binary_name":"wireshark"},{"binary_version":"1.10.6-1","binary_name":"wireshark-common"},{"binary_version":"1.10.6-1","binary_name":"wireshark-dbg"},{"binary_version":"1.10.6-1","binary_name":"wireshark-dev"},{"binary_version":"1.10.6-1","binary_name":"wireshark-doc"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2013/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-2488.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}