Buffer overflow in Wireshark

CVE-2011-0024

Heap-based buffer overflow in wiretap/pcapng.c in Wireshark before 1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted capture file.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published · last modified .

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.050 (91.9th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 91.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2011-0024: held from 0.050 to 0.050.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.050 · newest: 0.050 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • Wireshark — versions 0.99.2, 0.99.3, 0.99.4

Weakness classification (CWE)

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