MDVSA-2011:138Vendor advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:138 CVE-2011-3483
Wireshark 1.6.1 - Malformed Packet Trace File Remote Denial of Service
Record summary
CVE-2011-3483 has a selected CVSS score of 4.3; EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.
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."
Description source: CVE List
Exploitation context
Available material
- Catalogued exploits
- 1
Proofs of concept
1Catalogued exploits
ExploitDBWireshark 1.6.1 - Malformed Packet Trace File Remote Denial of ServiceExploitDB exploitby WiresharkNot analyzed1 file
References
10[oss-security] 20110913 CVE Request: Multiple issues fixed in wireshark 1.6.2mailing list
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/13/1 [oss-security] 20110914 Re: CVE Request: Multiple issues fixed in wireshark 1.6.2mailing list
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/14/10 [oss-security] 20110914 Re: CVE Request: Multiple issues fixed in wireshark 1.6.2mailing list
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/14/5 [oss-security] 20110914 Re: CVE Request: Multiple issues fixed in wireshark 1.6.2mailing list
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/14/9 wireshark.orgConfirmation
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-14.html bugs.wireshark.orgConfirmation
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6135 bugzilla.redhat.comConfirmation
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737785 nvd.nist.gov
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-3483 oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14971vdb entrysignature
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14971