Resource Management Errors Affecting wireshark package, versions [1.2.0,1.4.3]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.22% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WIRESHARK-2318481
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed3 Mar 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Mar 2011

CVE-2011-1139  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for wireshark.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors wiretap/pcapng.c in Wireshark 1.2.0 through 1.2.14 and 1.4.0 through 1.4.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a pcap-ng file that contains a large packet-length field.

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