PT-2011-3498 · Wireshark · Wireshark

Published 2011-06-06 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2011-1956

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 version 1.4.5

Description The issue concerns a function that handles TCP traffic, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This is achieved through a NULL pointer dereference and application crash via arbitrary TCP traffic. No information is provided about the estimated number of potentially affected devices or real-world incidents.

Recommendations For Wireshark version 1.4.5, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-1956

Affected Products

Wireshark

References · 13

• 🔥 https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5837 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/01/9 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/35873 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/31/19 · Exploit
• http://wireshark.org/news/20110418.html · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1956 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1956 · Vendor Advisory
• http://wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.6.html · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1956 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2011-1956 · Vendor Advisory
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14943 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67789 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/44449 · Note