CVE-2013-5717

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    CVE-2013-5717

    Published: 16 Sept 2013Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-54.html, http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=51130, https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8827, https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2013-54.html, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19030

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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