CVE-2011-1592

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-04-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

The NFS dissector in epan/dissectors/packet-nfs.c in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.5 on Windows uses an incorrect integer data type during decoding of SETCLIENTID calls, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted .pcap file.

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.4.4

References

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?revision=34115&view=revision
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/18/2
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/18/8
http://secunia.com/advisories/44172
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:083
http://www.osvdb.org/71847
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1022
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-06.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5209
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66833
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14987
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?revision=34115&view=revision

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