Buffer overflow in Wireshark - CVE-2011-0538
Published: February 9, 2011 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU45360
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2011-0538
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
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.
Affected software
Wireshark
How to mitigate CVE-2011-0538
Install update from vendor's website.
Links to Public Exploits and PoC-codes
External References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055364.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055650.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055664.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/04/1
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43759
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43795
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43821
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2201
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/215900
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:044
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0369.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0370.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46167
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025148
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0622
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0626
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0719
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0747
- http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.15.html
- http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.4.html
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-03.html
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-04.html
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5652
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676232
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65182
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14605