CVE-2011-4100

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

The csnStreamDissector function in epan/dissectors/packet-csn1.c in the CSN.1 dissector in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.3 does not initialize a certain variable, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet.

The csnStreamDissector function in epan/dissectors/packet-csn1.c in the CSN.1 dissector in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.3 does not initialize a certain variable, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed 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

2011-11-03 15:55:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-09-19 01:34:00

Affected Software

Wireshark 1.6.0

1.6.0

Wireshark 1.6.1

1.6.1

Wireshark 1.6.2

1.6.2

References

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=39140

Patch

[oss-security] 20111101 Re: CVE request for wireshark flaws

Patch

76768

46644

50479

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-17.html

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6351

Patch

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750643

Patch

wireshark-csn1-dissector-dos(71090)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14833

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