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CVE-2011-1590

Date: April 29, 2011

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

3.7

Related Resources (28)

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058900.html

Url: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5793

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1590

Url: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5754

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15050

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058993.html

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/18/2

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1590

Url: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-05.html

Url: https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8701428

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/44374

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1106

Url: http://securitytracker.com/id?1025388

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/44172

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1022

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-1590

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/18/8

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2274

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/45149

Url: http://www.osvdb.org/71846

Url: http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?revision=36608&view=revision

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:083

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2011-1590

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/48947

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058983.html

Url: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-06.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/44822

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2011-1590

Severity Score

3.7

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	3.7
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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CVE-2011-1590

Date: April 29, 2011

Language: C

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