CVE-2011-0538 Information

Description

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.

Reference

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 http://secunia.com/advisories/43759 http://secunia.com/advisories/43795 http://secunia.com/advisories/43821 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2201 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/215900 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:044 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0369.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0370.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46167 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025148 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0622 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0626 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0719 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0747 http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.15.html http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.4.html http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-03.html http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-04.html https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5652 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676232 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65182 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A14605