CVE-2011-4101

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-11-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The dissect_infiniband_common function in epan/dissectors/packet-infiniband.c in the Infiniband dissector in Wireshark 1.4.0 through 1.4.9 and 1.6.x before 1.6.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a malformed packet.

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.4.4, 1.4.5 (+7)

References

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=39500
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/01/9
http://osvdb.org/76769
http://secunia.com/advisories/46644
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50481
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-18.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6476
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750645
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71091
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14760
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=39500
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/01/9

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