CVE-2011-4100 Information

Description

The csnStreamDissector function in epan/dissectors/packet-csn1.c in the CSN.1 dissector in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.3 does not initialize a certain variable which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet.

Reference

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=39140 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/01/9 http://osvdb.org/76768 http://secunia.com/advisories/46644 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50479 http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-17.html https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6351 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750643 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71090 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A14833