Vulnerability in Wireshark
CVE-2011-1590
The X.509if dissector in Wireshark 1.2.x before 1.2.16 and 1.4.x before 1.4.5 does not properly initialize certain global variables, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted .pcap file.
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: 0.018 (77.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 78th percentile — 77.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.018 · newest: 0.018 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Wireshark — versions 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058900.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058993.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/48947 (third-party-advisory)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/18/8 (mailing-list, Exploit, Patch)
- www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-05.html
- bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi (Exploit, Patch)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15050 (signature, vdb-entry)
- hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8701428 (vendor-advisory)