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CVE-2011-1959 | Mondoo Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE-2011-1959

UNKNOWN

The snoop_read function in wiretap/snoop

Published Jun 6, 2011

Modified 1 years ago

No fix available

Details

The snoop_read function in wiretap/snoop.c in Wireshark 1.2.x before 1.2.17 and 1.4.x before 1.4.7 does not properly handle certain virtualizable buffers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large length value in a snoop file that triggers a stack-based buffer over-read.

References

WEBhttp://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=37068 ADVISORYhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061290.html ADVISORYhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061437.html ADVISORYhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061477.html WEBhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/31/20 WEBhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/01/1 WEBhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/01/11 ADVISORYhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0125.html ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/44449 ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/44958 ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/45149 ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/48947 ADVISORYhttp://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2274 WEBhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48066 WEBhttp://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-07.html WEBhttp://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-08.html WEBhttps://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5912 WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710039 WEBhttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67792 WEBhttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14656 ADVISORYhttps://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-1959

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Exploitability

Access Vector

NetworkAV:N

Access Complexity

MediumAC:M

Authentication

NoneAu:N

Impact

Confidentiality

NoneC:N

Integrity

NoneI:N

Availability

PartialA:P

4.3/AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Ecosystems

Timeline

PublishedJun 6, 2011

ModifiedAug 6, 2024