4.3

CVE-2011-1140: wireshark Resource Management Errors

CVSS: 4.3v2.0MediumModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2011-1140
Published 03-03-2011Last modified 06-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2011-1140 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) Resource Management Errors vulnerability in wireshark. EPSS estimates a 13.06% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96.3% of scored vulnerabilities. 2 public exploits are recorded.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
4.3/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
13.06%
0%100%
Medium · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits2reference, metasploit

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 1
DSA-2201-1OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1RHSA-2011:0369RHSA-2011:0370

Timeline

  1. 03-03-2011
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Multiple stack consumption vulnerabilities in the dissect_ms_compressed_string and dissect_mscldap_string functions in Wireshark 1.0.x, 1.2.0 through 1.2.14, and 1.4.0 through 1.4.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) via a crafted (1) SMB or (2) Connection-less LDAP (CLDAP) packet.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

13.06%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

96%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 13.06% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
13.06%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

2 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (bugs.wireshark.org)

    Maturity: unknown

  • MetasploitMetasploitremoteUnverified

    Wireshark CLDAP Dissector DOS

    auxiliary/dos/wireshark/cldap

    Maturity: poc

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • wireshark< 1.4.4-1
Wireshark1 product
  • wiresharkEOL1.0 | 1.0.0 | 1.0.1 | 1.0.2 | 1.0.3 | 1.0.4 | 1.0.5 | 1.0.6 | 1.0.7 | 1.0.8 | 1.0.9 | 1.0.10 | 1.0.11 | 1.0.12 | 1.0.13 | 1.0.14 | 1.0.15 | 1.0.16 | 1.2.0 | 1.2.1 | 1.2.2 | 1.2.3 | 1.2.4 | 1.2.5 | 1.2.6 | 1.2.7 | 1.2.8 | 1.2.9 | 1.2.10 | 1.2.11 | 1.2.12 | 1.2.13 | 1.2.14 | 1.4.0 | 1.4.1 | 1.4.2 | 1.4.3

2 vendors · 2 products

References

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