FKIE_CVE-2011-2174
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2011-06-06 19:55 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:30
Severity
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| wireshark | wireshark | 1.2 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 1.2.0 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 1.2.1 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 1.2.2 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 1.2.3 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 1.2.4 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 1.2.5 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 1.2.6 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 1.2.7 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 1.2.8 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 1.2.9 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 1.2.10 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 1.2.11 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 1.2.12 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 1.2.13 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 1.2.14 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 1.2.15 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 1.2.16 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 1.4.0 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 1.4.1 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 1.4.2 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 1.4.3 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 1.4.4 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 1.4.5 | |
| wireshark | wireshark | 1.4.6 |
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