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Wireshark : CVE-2011-1139 : denial of service (application crash) via a pcap-ng file

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Wireshark : CVE-2011-1139 : denial of service (application crash) via a pcap-ng file

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/02/2011
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/03/2018
Modified
05/03/2018

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • wireshark-upgrade-1_2_15
  • wireshark-upgrade-1_4_4

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