PT-2011-2897 · Wireshark · Wireshark

Gerald Combs · Published 2011-03-02 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2011-1138

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wireshark versions 1.4.0 through 1.4.3

Description The issue is caused by an off-by-one error in the dissect 6lowpan iphc function in packet-6lowpan.c, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed 6LoWPAN IPv6 packet.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 1.4.0 through 1.4.3, update to a version that contains a fix for this issue to prevent remote attackers from causing a denial of service.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-189

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-1138

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1

Affected Products

Wireshark

References · 284

• 🔥 https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5722 · Exploit
• http://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-04.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055664.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1138 · Vendor Advisory
• http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=36036 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1138 · Vendor Advisory
• https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8086844 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055650.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2011-1138 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1138 · Security Note
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055364.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.4.html · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-6243 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-6428 · Note