Vulnerability in Wireshark
CVE-2011-1139
wiretap/pcapng.c in Wireshark 1.2.0 through 1.2.14 and 1.4.0 through 1.4.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a pcap-ng file that contains a large packet-length field.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.033 (88.0th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 88th percentile — 88.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.033 · newest: 0.033 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Wireshark — versions 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14997 (signature, vdb-entry)
- hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8086844 (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/43759 (third-party-advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055364.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055664.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.15.html (Patch)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0747 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/44169 (third-party-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0626 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/43795 (third-party-advisory)