CVE-2011-0538
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Feb 8, 2011
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Jan 20, 2011
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- 43759third-party-advisory
- FEDORA-2011-2648vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2011-2620vendor-advisory
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14605vdb-entrysignature
- http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.15.html
- ADV-2011-0747vdb-entry
- ADV-2011-0626vdb-entry
- 43795third-party-advisory
- VU#215900third-party-advisory
- [oss-security] 20110204 Wireshark: Freeing uninitialized pointermailing-list
- RHSA-2011:0370vendor-advisory
- ADV-2011-0719vdb-entry
- http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.4.html
- FEDORA-2011-2632vendor-advisory
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5652
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-04.html
- ADV-2011-0622vdb-entry
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-03.html
- RHSA-2011:0369vendor-advisory
- wireshark-pcap-code-execution(65182)vdb-entry
- MDVSA-2011:044vendor-advisory
- 1025148vdb-entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676232
- 46167vdb-entry
- DSA-2201vendor-advisory
- 43821third-party-advisory
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