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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2011-3483

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2011-3483

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/20/2011
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/12/2013
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

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."

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-wireshark
  • suse-upgrade-wireshark-devel

References

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