CVE-2011-3483
EPSS 6.3%wireshark - buffer underflow
Published: 9/20/2011Modified: 4/28/2026
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."
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/wiresharkfrom 0, < 1.6.2-1
- Debian/wiresharkfrom 0, < 1.2.11-6+squeeze6