CVE-2013-4931

wireshark: DoS (infinite loop) in the GSM RR dissector (wnpa-sec-2013-49)

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 2.0

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Published · July 26, 2013

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

epan/proto.c in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.9 and 1.10.x before 1.10.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (loop) via a crafted packet that is not properly handled by the GSM RR dissector.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-835 · Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')