wireshark: denial of service [LWN.net]

Package(s):

wireshark

CVE #(s):

CVE-2011-0538

Created:

February 14, 2011

Updated:

April 19, 2011

Description:

From the Pardus advisory:

Wireshark 1.5.0, 1.4.3, and earlier 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.

Alerts:

Gentoo	201110-02	2011-10-09
SUSE	SUSE-SR:2011:007	2011-04-19
CentOS	CESA-2011:0370	2011-04-14
Debian	DSA-2201-1	2011-03-23
CentOS	CESA-2011:0370	2011-03-22
Red Hat	RHSA-2011:0370-01	2011-03-21
Red Hat	RHSA-2011:0369-01	2011-03-21
Fedora	FEDORA-2011-2620	2011-03-04
Fedora	FEDORA-2011-2632	2011-03-04
Mandriva	MDVSA-2011:044	2011-03-08
Pardus	2011-43	2011-02-14

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