CVE-2011-3483: wireshark

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2011-3483 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability in wireshark. EPSS estimates a 5.58% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92.7% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 20-09-2011
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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."

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.