CVE-2011-1590 (GCVE-0-2011-1590)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-04-29 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 22:28
VLAI
Summary
The X.509if dissector in Wireshark 1.2.x before 1.2.16 and 1.4.x before 1.4.5 does not properly initialize certain global variables, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted .pcap file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://secunia.com/advisories/48947 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/18/8 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-05.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8701428 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2274 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://secunia.com/advisories/44374 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.osvdb.org/71846 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?revision=3660… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/44822 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-06.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/44172 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1022 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://securitytracker.com/id?1025388 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/18/2 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1106 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://secunia.com/advisories/45149 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Date Public
2011-04-14 00:00
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