CVE-2011-3483 in Wireshark

Summary

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."

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• Reservation: 09/14/2011
• Disclosure: 09/20/2011
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-58573 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-119 (Confirmed)
• Exploit: Download
• CVSS: 5.3
• EPSS: 0.06778
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-3483
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-3483
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2011-3483/