CVE-2011-1139

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

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 1.2.0

1.2.0

Wireshark 1.2.1

1.2.1

Wireshark 1.2.2

1.2.2

Wireshark 1.2.3

1.2.3

Wireshark 1.2.4

1.2.4

Wireshark 1.2.5

1.2.5

Wireshark 1.2.6

1.2.6

Wireshark 1.2.7

1.2.7

Wireshark 1.2.8

1.2.8

Wireshark 1.2.9

1.2.9

Wireshark 1.2.10

1.2.10

Wireshark 1.2.11

1.2.11

Wireshark 1.2.12

1.2.12

Wireshark 1.2.13

1.2.13

Wireshark 1.2.14

1.2.14

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=35855

Patch

FEDORA-2011-2648

FEDORA-2011-2632

FEDORA-2011-2620

43759

43795

43821

44169

DSA-2201

VU#215900

US Government Resource

MDVSA-2011:044

RHSA-2011:0369

RHSA-2011:0370

1025148

ADV-2011-0622

ADV-2011-0626

ADV-2011-0719

ADV-2011-0747

http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.15.html

Patch

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

Patch

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-03.html

Vendor Advisory

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

Vendor Advisory

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5661

Exploit

wireshark-pcapng-dos(65779)

openSUSE-SU-2011:0347

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14997

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