Bug 671331 (CVE-2011-0024)

Summary: CVE-2011-0024 wireshark: heap-based buffer overflow in wireshark < 1.2 when reading malformed capture files
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-01-21 09:25:52 UTC 
Marc Schoenefeld found a heap-based buffer overflow in Wireshark, when reading certain capture files.

A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause wireshark executable
to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges
of the user running wireshark, if the local user opened a
specially-crafted capture file.

This only affects wireshark < 1.2
Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-01-21 10:20:10 UTC 
Created attachment 474606 [details]
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Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2011-03-21 19:39:21 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2011:0370 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0370.html