CVE-2011-2174 Information

Description

Double free vulnerability in the tvb_uncompress function in epan/tvbuff.c in Wireshark 1.2.x before 1.2.17 and 1.4.x before 1.4.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a packet with malformed data that uses zlib compression.

Reference

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=37081 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061290.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061437.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061477.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/31/20 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/01/1 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/01/11 http://secunia.com/advisories/44449 http://secunia.com/advisories/44958 http://secunia.com/advisories/45149 http://secunia.com/advisories/48947 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2274 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48066 http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-07.html http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-08.html https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5908 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710097 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67793 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A14777