Uninitialized Pointer Vulnerability in Wireshark

CVE-2011-0538 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Wireshark 1.2.0 through 1.2.14, 1.4.0 through 1.4.3, and 1.5.0 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.

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