CVE-2011-1590

Description

The X.509if dissector in Wireshark 1.2.x before 1.2.16 and 1.4.x before 1.4.5 does not properly initialize certain global variables, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted .pcap file.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15050

https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8701428

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5793

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-06.html

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-05.html

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1106

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1022

http://www.osvdb.org/71846

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:083

http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2274

http://securitytracker.com/id?1025388

http://secunia.com/advisories/48947

http://secunia.com/advisories/45149

http://secunia.com/advisories/44822

http://secunia.com/advisories/44374

http://secunia.com/advisories/44172

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058993.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058983.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058900.html

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?revision=36608&view=revision

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3