Resource management error in Wireshark - CVE-2011-3482
Published: September 20, 2011 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU44709
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2011-3482
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
The csnStreamDissector function in epan/dissectors/packet-csn1.c in the CSN.1 dissector in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.2 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet.
Affected software
Wireshark
How to mitigate CVE-2011-3482
Install update from vendor's website.
External References
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=38430
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:138
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/13/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/14/10
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/14/5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/14/9
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-16.html
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6139
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737783
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14886