CVE-2011-3483

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-09-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed capture file that leads to an invalid root tvbuff, related to a "buffer exception handling vulnerability."

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 1.6.0, 1.6.1

References

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:138
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/13/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/14/10
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/14/5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/14/9
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-14.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6135
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737785
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14971
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:138
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/13/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/14/10

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