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CVE-2011-3483
Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed capture file that…
Medium4.3EPSS 5.6%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed capture file that leads to an invalid root tvbuff, related to a "buffer exception handling vulnerability."
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 6 days later
· 6 days later
Published
- 13 years later
· 13 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.6% · top 7.1% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- [oss-security] 20110914 Re: CVE Request: Multiple issues fixed in wireshark 1.6.2 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20110914 Re: CVE Request: Multiple issues fixed in wireshark 1.6.2 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20110914 Re: CVE Request: Multiple issues fixed in wireshark 1.6.2 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-14.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737785 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- MDVSA-2011:138 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6135 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20110913 CVE Request: Multiple issues fixed in wireshark 1.6.2 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14971 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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