CVE-2011-1139
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.3 · CWE-399
4.3CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
wiretap/pcapng.c in Wireshark 1.2.0 through 1.2.14 and 1.4.0 through 1.4.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a pcap-ng file that contains a large packet-length field.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/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://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=35855 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=35855Patch
- 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://secunia.com/advisories/43759
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43795
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43821
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44169