CVE-2013-5717: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 1.10.0 only; version 1.10.1 only

Published 2013-09-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.