PT-2011-3946 · Wireshark+2 · Wireshark+2

Published 2011-07-07 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2011-2597

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 1.2.x through 1.2.17 Wireshark versions 1.4.x through 1.4.7 Wireshark version 1.6.0

Description The issue is related to the Lucent/Ascend file parser, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via malformed packets.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 1.2.x through 1.2.17, update to version 1.2.18 or later. For Wireshark versions 1.4.x through 1.4.7, update to a version later than 1.4.7. For Wireshark version 1.6.0, update to a version later than 1.6.0.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CESA-2012_0509

CVE-2011-2597

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1

RHSA-2012:0509

RHSA-2012_0509

Affected Products

Centos

Red Hat

Wireshark

References · 339

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• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2174 · Security Note
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• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-0042 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2597 · Security Note
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