CVE-2011-1590 Information

Description

The X.509if dissector in Wireshark 1.2.x before 1.2.16 and 1.4.x before 1.4.5 does not properly initialize certain global variables which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted .pcap file.

Reference

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?revision=36608&view=revision http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058900.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058983.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058993.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/18/2 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/18/8 http://secunia.com/advisories/44172 http://secunia.com/advisories/44374 http://secunia.com/advisories/44822 http://secunia.com/advisories/45149 http://secunia.com/advisories/48947 http://securitytracker.com/id?1025388 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2274 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:083 http://www.osvdb.org/71846 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1022 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1106 http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-05.html http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-06.html https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5754 https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5793 https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8701428 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A15050