CVE-2013-1572: Wireshark

Low severity, CVSS 2.9. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The dissect_oampdu_event_notification function in epan/dissectors/packet-slowprotocols.c in the IEEE 802.3 Slow Protocols dissector in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.13 and 1.8.x before 1.8.5 does not properly handle certain short lengths, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a malformed packet.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 1.6.0 only; version 1.6.1 only; version 1.6.2 only; version 1.6.3 only; version 1.6.4 only; version 1.6.5 only; …

Published 2013-02-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.