CVE-2011-1138

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

Off-by-one error in the dissect_6lowpan_iphc function in packet-6lowpan.c in Wireshark 1.4.0 through 1.4.3 on 32-bit platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed 6LoWPAN IPv6 packet.

Off-by-one error in the dissect_6lowpan_iphc function in packet-6lowpan.c in Wireshark 1.4.0 through 1.4.3 on 32-bit platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed 6LoWPAN IPv6 packet.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Wireshark

First reported 13 years ago

2011-03-03 01:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-09-19 01:32:00

Affected Software

Wireshark 1.4.0

1.4.0

Wireshark 1.4.1

1.4.1

Wireshark 1.4.2

1.4.2

Wireshark 1.4.3

1.4.3

References

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=36036

Patch

FEDORA-2011-2648

FEDORA-2011-2632

FEDORA-2011-2620

43759

44169

VU#215900

US Government Resource

46636

1025148

ADV-2011-0626

http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.4.html

Patch

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-04.html

Vendor Advisory

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5722

Exploit, Patch

wireshark6lowpan-bo(65783)

openSUSE-SU-2011:0347

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16299

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