Integer Overflow Vulnerability in Wireshark NFS Dissector

CVE-2011-1592 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The NFS dissector in epan/dissectors/packet-nfs.c in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.5 on Windows uses an incorrect integer data type during decoding of SETCLIENTID calls, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted .pcap file.

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