CVE-2011-4102: wireshark

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2011-4102 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability in wireshark. EPSS estimates a 3.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 03-11-2011
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 07-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the erf_read_header function in wiretap/erf.c in the ERF file parser in Wireshark 1.4.0 through 1.4.9 and 1.6.x before 1.6.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed file.

• 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.