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Bug 737783 - (CVE-2011-3482) CVE-2011-3482 Wireshark: CSN.1 dissector vulnerability
CVE-2011-3482 Wireshark: CSN.1 dissector vulnerability
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=low,public=20110907,reported=2...
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Blocks: 737788
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Reported: 2011-09-13 00:59 EDT by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2011-09-14 17:58 EDT (History)
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-09-13 00:59:20 EDT
An uninitialized variable flaw was found in the CSN.1 dissector of wireshark. It may be possible to make Wireshark crash by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.
This affects versions 1.6.0 to 1.6.1 and has been fixed in version 1.6.2

Reference:
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-16.html

This issue affects the versions of wireshark shipped with Fedora-14, Fedora-15 and the upcoming Fedora-16 and has been fixed via the following security advisories:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-12423
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-12403
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-12399
Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-09-13 01:00:12 EDT
Statement:

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, or 6.
Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2011-09-14 17:58:24 EDT
This issue was assigned the name CVE-2011-3482.

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