CVE-2011-1956

23Vexday Risk Score

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

ssvc Attendepss 5.9%

from disclosure to weapon11 days

Published on NVDJun 6

1st PoC+11d

exploitation probability

5.9%top 8% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

The bytes_repr_len function in Wireshark 1.4.5 uses an incorrect pointer argument, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via arbitrary TCP traffic.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/35873

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References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/31/19 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/01/9 https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5837 http://secunia.com/advisories/44449 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67789 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14943 http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.6.html http://www.wireshark.org/news/20110418.html