Description
wiretap/pcapng.c in Wireshark 1.2.0 through 1.2.14 and 1.4.0 through 1.4.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a pcap-ng file that contains a large packet-length field.
Published: 2011-03-03
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: 5.3% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2201-1 wireshark security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2011-1153 wiretap/pcapng.c in Wireshark 1.2.0 through 1.2.14 and 1.4.0 through 1.4.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a pcap-ng file that contains a large packet-length field.
References
Link Providers
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=35855 cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055364.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055650.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055664.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/43759 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/43795 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/43821 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/44169 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2201 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/215900 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:044 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0369.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0370.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025148 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0622 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0626 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0719 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0747 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.15.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.4.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-03.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-04.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5661 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65779 cve-icon cve-icon
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8086844 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1139 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14997 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-1139 cve-icon
History

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Redhat Enterprise Linux
Wireshark Wireshark
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T22:14:27.850Z

Reserved: 2011-03-02T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2011-1139

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2011-03-03T01:00:01.380

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2011-1139

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2011-03-01T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2011-1139 - Bugzilla

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