CVE-2011-0538

Publication date 8 February 2011

Last updated 24 July 2024

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.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
wireshark	13.10 saucy	Not affected
	13.04 raring	Not affected
	12.10 quantal	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected
	11.10 oneiric	Not affected
	11.04 natty	Not affected
	10.10 maverick	Fixed 1.2.11-6+squeeze1build0.10.10.1
	10.04 LTS lucid	Ignored end of life
	9.10 karmic	Ignored end of life
	8.04 LTS hardy	Ignored end of life
	6.06 LTS dapper	Not in release

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
wireshark	Upstream: http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=35793

References

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-0538