National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-4101

Overview

The dissect_infiniband_common function in epan/dissectors/packet-infiniband.c in the Infiniband dissector in Wireshark 1.4.0 through 1.4.9 and 1.6.x before 1.6.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a malformed packet.

Description

Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html 'CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference'

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750645

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750645

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=39500

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=39500

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6476

Hyperlink:https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6476

External Source: XF

Name: wireshark-infiniband-dissector-dos(71091)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/71091

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-18.html

Hyperlink:http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-18.html

External Source: BID

Name: 50481

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50481

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 46644

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/46644

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14760

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14760

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 76769

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/76769

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20111101 Re: CVE request for wireshark flaws

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/01/9