CVE-2011-2174

EPSS 2.0%

Double free vulnerability in the tvb_uncompress function in epan/tvbuff.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 packet with malformed data that uses zlib compression.

Affected products

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References

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=37081 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061290.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061437.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061477.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/31/20 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/01/1 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/01/11 https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5908 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710097 http://secunia.com/advisories/44449 http://secunia.com/advisories/44958 http://secunia.com/advisories/45149