National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-1592
Original release date:04/29/2011
Last revised:08/14/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The NFS dissector in epan/dissectors/packet-nfs.c in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.5 on Windows uses an incorrect integer data type during decoding of SETCLIENTID calls, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted .pcap file.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5209
Type: Patch Information; Exploit
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20110418 Re: Wireshark 1.2.16 / 1.4.5
Type: Patch Information; Exploit
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20110418 Wireshark 1.2.16 / 1.4.5
Type: Patch Information; Exploit
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?revision=34115&view=revision
Type: Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: wireshark-nfs-dos(66833)
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-06.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2011-1022
Type: Advisory
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 71847
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2011:083
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 44172
Type: Advisory
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14987