Summary
This host is installed Wireshark and is prone to denial of service vulnerability.
Impact
Successful exploitation could allow attackers to cause a denial of service, execution of arbitrary code.
Impact Level: Application
Solution
Upgrade to Wireshark version 1.2.15 or 1.4.4 or later, For updates refer to http://www.wireshark.org/download.html
Insight
The flaw is due to uninitialized pointer during processing of a '.pcap' file in the pcap-ng format.
Affected
Wireshark version 1.5.0
Wireshark version 1.2.0 through 1.2.14
Wireshark version 1.4.0 through 1.4.3
References
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2011-0538 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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