CVE-2013-2488: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 11.4 only; version 12.1 only; version 12.2 only; version 12.3 only
• Wireshark Wireshark: version 1.8.0 only; version 1.8.1 only; version 1.8.2 only; version 1.8.3 only; version 1.8.4 only; version 1.8.5 only; …

Published 2013-03-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.