National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-0538

Overview

Wireshark 1.2.0 through 1.2.14, 1.4.0 through 1.4.3, and 1.5.0 frees an uninitialized pointer during processing of a .pcap file in the pcap-ng format, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed file.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#215900

Name: VU#215900

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/215900

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5652

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5652

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110204 Wireshark: Freeing uninitialized pointer

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/04/1

External Source: MISC

Name: https://srcm.symantec.com/EditVulnerabilityFixes.aspx?docId=549474

Hyperlink:https://srcm.symantec.com/EditVulnerabilityFixes.aspx?docId=549474

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676232

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676232

External Source: XF

Name: wireshark-pcap-code-execution(65182)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/65182

External Source: XF

Name: wireshark-pcap-code-execution(65182)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/65182

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-04.html

Hyperlink:http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-04.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-03.html

Hyperlink:http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-03.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.4.html

Hyperlink:http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.4.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.15.html

Hyperlink:http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.15.html

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2011-0747

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0747

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2011-0719

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0719

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2011-0626

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0626

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2011-0622

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0622

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1025148

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025148

External Source: BID

Name: 46167

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46167

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2011:0370

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0370.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2011:0369

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0369.html

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2011:044

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:044

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2201

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2201

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 43821

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/43821

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 43795

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/43795

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 43759

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/43759

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14605

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14605

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-2620

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055664.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-2632

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055650.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-2648

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055364.html