CVE-2011-2597

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-07-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The Lucent/Ascend file parser in Wireshark 1.2.x before 1.2.18, 1.4.x through 1.4.7, and 1.6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via malformed packets.

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 1.2, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4 (+22)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-August/063586.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-August/063591.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00021.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00022.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/45086
http://secunia.com/advisories/45574
http://secunia.com/advisories/48947
http://securitytracker.com/id?1025738
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:118
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48506
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-09.html
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-10.html

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