SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

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…

MEDIUM 4.3EPSS 1.97%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.97%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

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 2.0
4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
1.97% probability · 79th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-399
Affected
wireshark/wireshark
Source
secalert@redhat.com

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.