CVE-2011-0538
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.8 · Memory corruption
6.8CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Wireshark 1.2.0 through 1.2.14, 1.4.0 through 1.4.3, and 1.5.0 frees an uninitialized pointer during processing of a .pcap file in the pcap-ng format, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed file.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)8%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/04/1 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/04/1Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43759Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43795Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43821Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055364.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055650.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055664.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2201