Resource management error in Wireshark - CVE-2011-1590
Published: April 30, 2011 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU45101
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-2011-1590
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 X.509if dissector in Wireshark 1.2.x before 1.2.16 and 1.4.x before 1.4.5 does not properly initialize certain global variables, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted .pcap file.
Affected software
Wireshark
Amazon Linux AMI
Amazon Linux AMI
How to mitigate CVE-2011-1590
Install update from vendor's website.
External References
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?revision=36608&view=revision
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058900.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058983.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058993.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/18/2
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/18/8
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44172
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44374
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44822
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45149
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48947
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1025388
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2274
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:083
- http://www.osvdb.org/71846
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1022
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1106
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-05.html
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-06.html
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5754
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5793
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8701428
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15050