Bug 697746 (CVE-2011-1591) - CVE-2011-1591 Wireshark: Heap-based buffer overflow in DECT dissector
Summary: CVE-2011-1591 Wireshark: Heap-based buffer overflow in DECT dissector
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2011-1591
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 697747
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-04-19 05:41 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2021-02-24 15:35 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-05-09 07:31:40 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-04-19 05:41:00 UTC 
A heap-based buffer overflow was found in the DECT dissector of
wireshark versions 1.4.0 to 1.4.4

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.

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5838
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5836

Upstream acknowledges Paul Makowski of SEI/CERT as the original 
reporter of the issue.
Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-04-19 05:50:16 UTC 
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 697747]
Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-05-03 10:21:25 UTC 
This issue was addressed in Fedora 14 and Fedora 15 via:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/wireshark-1.4.6-1.fc14
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/wireshark-1.4.6-1.fc15


Statement:

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of wireshark as
shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, or 6.
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