CVE-2011-2174

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.

CVSS v2.0 NVD

4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

1.97% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 80th percentile

Published

2011-06-06

Updated

2024-08-06

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5908

Security advisories

• http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-07.html
• http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-08.html
• http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=37081
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710097
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48066

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry