CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-0538
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-02-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Wireshark 1.2.0 through 1.2.14, 1.4.0 through 1.4.3, and 1.5.0 frees an uninitialized pointer during processing of a .pcap file in the pcap-ng format, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed file.
Affected configurations
• wireshark wireshark 1.2.0
• wireshark wireshark 1.2.1
• wireshark wireshark 1.2.2
• wireshark wireshark 1.2.3
• wireshark wireshark 1.2.4
• wireshark wireshark 1.2.5
• wireshark wireshark 1.2.6
• wireshark wireshark 1.2.7
• wireshark wireshark 1.2.8
• wireshark wireshark 1.2.9
• wireshark wireshark 1.2.10
• wireshark wireshark 1.2.11
• wireshark wireshark 1.2.12
• wireshark wireshark 1.2.13
• wireshark wireshark 1.2.14
• wireshark wireshark 1.4.0
• wireshark wireshark 1.4.1
• wireshark wireshark 1.4.2
• wireshark wireshark 1.4.3
• wireshark wireshark 1.5.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055364.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055650.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055664.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/04/1 Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43759 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43795 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43821 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2201 www.debian.org
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/215900 US Government Resource
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:044 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0369.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0370.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46167 Exploit
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025148 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0622 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0626 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0719 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0747 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.15.html www.wireshark.org
- http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.4.html www.wireshark.org
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-03.html www.wireshark.org
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-04.html www.wireshark.org
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5652 Exploit, Patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676232 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65182 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14605 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055364.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055650.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055664.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/04/1 Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43759 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43795 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43821 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2201 www.debian.org
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/215900 US Government Resource
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:044 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0369.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0370.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46167 Exploit
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025148 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0622 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0626 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0719 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0747 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.15.html www.wireshark.org
- http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.4.html www.wireshark.org
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-03.html www.wireshark.org
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-04.html www.wireshark.org
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5652 Exploit, Patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676232 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65182 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14605 oval.cisecurity.org