Vulnerability in Wireshark
CVE-2011-2175
Integer underflow in the visual_read function in wiretap/visual.c in Wireshark 1.2.x before 1.2.17 and 1.4.x before 1.4.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed Visual Networks file that triggers a heap-based buffer over-read.
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: 0.021 (81.0th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 81st percentile — 81.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.021 · newest: 0.021 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Wireshark — versions 1.2, 1.2.0, 1.2.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc (Patch)
- secunia.com/advisories/44958 (third-party-advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061437.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-07.html (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0125.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/48947 (third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/48066 (vdb-entry)
- www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-08.html (Vendor Advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2274 (vendor-advisory)
- bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi (Exploit)