Vulnerability in Wireshark

CVE-2011-3482

The csnStreamDissector function in epan/dissectors/packet-csn1.c in the CSN.1 dissector in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.2 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet.

EPSS: 0.017 (74.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Wireshark — versions 1.6.0, 1.6.1
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References