National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-2174

Overview

Double free vulnerability in the tvb_uncompress function in epan/tvbuff.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 packet with malformed data that uses zlib compression.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710097

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710097

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5908

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5908

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-08.html

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-08.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-07.html

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-07.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=37081

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=37081

External Source: XF

Name: wireshark-compressed-packet-dos(67793)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/67793

External Source: BID

Name: 48066

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48066

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2274

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2274

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 48947

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/48947

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 45149

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/45149

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 44958

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/44958

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 44449

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/44449

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14777

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14777

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110601 Re: CVE request for Wireshark 1.4.6/1.2.16 Multiple DoS issues

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/01/11

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110601 Re: CVE request for Wireshark 1.4.6/1.2.16 Multiple DoS issues

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/01/1

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110531 CVE request for Wireshark 1.4.6/1.2.16 Multiple DoS issues

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/31/20

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-7858

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061477.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-7846

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061437.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-7821

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061290.html