cve-2011-3483
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2011-09-20 10:00
Modified
2024-08-06 23:37
Severity ?
Summary
Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed capture file that leads to an invalid root tvbuff, related to a "buffer exception handling vulnerability."
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:138
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/13/1
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/14/10
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/14/5
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/14/9
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-14.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6135
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737785
cve@mitre.orghttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14971
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:138
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/13/1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/14/10
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/14/5
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/14/9
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-14.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6135
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737785
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14971
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