Integer Underflow Vulnerability in Wireshark's visual_read Function

CVE-2011-2175 · MEDIUM Severity

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

Integer underflow in the visual_read function in wiretap/visual.c in Wireshark 1.2.x before 1.2.17 and 1.4.x before 1.4.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed Visual Networks file that triggers a heap-based buffer over-read.

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