CVE-2011-1958

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-06-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Wireshark 1.2.x before 1.2.17 and 1.4.x before 1.4.7 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted Diameter dictionary file.

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 1.2, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4 (+19)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061290.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061437.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061477.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/31/20
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/01/1
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/01/11
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0125.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/44449
http://secunia.com/advisories/44958
http://secunia.com/advisories/45149
http://secunia.com/advisories/48947
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2274

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