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CVE-2011-0024

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2011-03-28 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in wiretap/pcapng.c in Wireshark before 1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted capture file.

Affected products

• Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: through 1.0.16; 0.99.2, 0.99.3, 0.99.4, 0.99.5, 0.99.6, 0.99.7 (+17)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/43821
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0370.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0719
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=671331
• http://secunia.com/advisories/43821
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0370.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0719
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=671331

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