Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2011-0538 to the following vulnerability: Name: CVE-2011-0538 URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-0538 Assigned: 20110120 Reference: MLIST:[oss-security] 20110204 Wireshark: Freeing uninitialized pointer Reference: URL:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/04/1 Reference: MISC:https://srcm.symantec.com/EditVulnerabilityFixes.aspx?docId=549474 Reference: CONFIRM:https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5652 Reference: BID:46167 Reference: URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46167 Wireshark 1.5.0, 1.4.3, and earlier frees an uninitialized pointer during processing of a .pcap file in the pcap-ng format, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed file.
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 676781]
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2011:0369 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0369.html
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
Acknowledgements: This issue was discovered by Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team.