CVE-2011-0538

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 7.5%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDFeb 8

1st PoCFeb 3

exploitation probability

7.5%top 6% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

Wireshark 1.2.0 through 1.2.14, 1.4.0 through 1.4.3, and 1.5.0 frees an uninitialized pointer during processing of a .pcap file in the pcap-ng format, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed file.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/35314

⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055364.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055650.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055664.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/04/1 https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5652 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676232 http://secunia.com/advisories/43759 http://secunia.com/advisories/43795 http://secunia.com/advisories/43821 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65182 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14605 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2201