CVE-2011-3483

published 2011-09-20

CVE-2011-3483: Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed capture file that leads to an invalid…

Priority P4 19 medium 4.3 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC M Au N C N I N A P

EXPLOIT

Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed capture file that leads to an invalid root tvbuff, related to a "buffer exception handling vulnerability."

Affected

7 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	wireshark	< wireshark 1.6.2-1 (bookworm)	wireshark 1.6.2-1 (bookworm)
wireshark	wireshark	—	—
wireshark	wireshark	—	—
wireshark	wireshark	>= 0 < 1.6.2-1	1.6.2-1
wireshark	wireshark	>= 0 < 1.6.2-1	1.6.2-1
wireshark	wireshark	>= 0 < 1.6.2-1	1.6.2-1
wireshark	wireshark	>= 0 < 1.6.2-1	1.6.2-1

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 4.3 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv 4.3 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 4.3 MEDIUM

vendor_redhat 4.3 MEDIUM

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