CVE-2011-2175

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2011-05-31
Bugzilla:
710109: CVE-2011-2175 wireshark: Heap-based buffer over-read in Visual Networks dissector

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Integer underflow in the visual_read function in wiretap/visual.c in Wireshark 1.2.x before 1.2.17 and 1.4.x before 1.4.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed Visual Networks file that triggers a heap-based buffer over-read.

Find out more about CVE-2011-2175 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (wireshark) RHSA-2013:0125 2013-01-08
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (wireshark) RHSA-2012:0509 2012-04-23

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 wireshark Will not fix

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team.

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