CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-3483
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-09-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
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 configurations
• wireshark wireshark 1.6.0
• wireshark wireshark 1.6.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:138 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/13/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/14/10 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/14/5 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/14/9 www.openwall.com
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-14.html www.wireshark.org
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6135 bugs.wireshark.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737785 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14971 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:138 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/13/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/14/10 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/14/5 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/14/9 www.openwall.com
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-14.html www.wireshark.org
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6135 bugs.wireshark.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737785 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14971 oval.cisecurity.org