CVE-2011-2174 — Double Free in Wireshark

CWE-3996 documents6 sources
Severity
4.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
2.9%
top 13.59%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
WiresharkDebian Wireshark
Timeline
PublishedJun 6
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Double free vulnerability in the tvb_uncompress function in epan/tvbuff.c in Wireshark 1.2.x before 1.2.17 and 1.4.x before 1.4.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a packet with malformed data that uses zlib compression.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:N/I:N/A:PExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/wireshark< wireshark 1.6.0-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianwireshark/wireshark< 1.6.0-1+3
▶NVDwireshark/wireshark25 versions+24

Patches

Patch: anonsvn.wireshark.org ↗Patch: www.wireshark.org ↗Patch: www.wireshark.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-3648-p859-9652: Double free vulnerability in the tvb_uncompress function in epan/tvbuff↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2011-2174: Double free vulnerability in the tvb_uncompress function in epan/tvbuff↗2011-06-06
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
wireshark: Double-free flaw by uncompressing of a zlib compressed packet↗2011-05-31
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Debian
CVE-2011-2174: wireshark - Double free vulnerability in the tvb_uncompress function in epan/tvbuff.c in Wir...↗2011
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2011-2174 wireshark: Double-free flaw by uncompressing of a zlib compressed packet↗2011-06-02
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