CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
AI Score
Confidence
Low
EPSS
Percentile
76.4%
Wireshark is prone to heap based buffer overflow and denial of service vulnerabilities.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:wireshark:wireshark";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.802502");
script_version("2024-07-22T05:05:40+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-07-22 05:05:40 +0000 (Mon, 22 Jul 2024)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2011-11-08 11:40:17 +0200 (Tue, 08 Nov 2011)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2011-4102", "CVE-2011-4101");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.3");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_name("Wireshark Heap Based BOF and Denial of Service Vulnerabilities - Windows");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2011 Greenbone AG");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family("General");
script_dependencies("gb_wireshark_detect_win.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("wireshark/windows/detected");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation could allow attackers to cause a denial of service via
via a malformed packet.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Wireshark version 1.4.0 through 1.4.9 and 1.6.x before 1.6.3");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaws are due to
- An error while parsing ERF file format. This could cause wireshark to crash
by reading a malformed packet trace file.
- An error in dissect_infiniband_common function in
epan/dissectors/packet-infiniband.c in the Infiniband dissector, could
dereference a NULL pointer.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to the Wireshark version 1.6.3 or later.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Wireshark is prone to heap based buffer overflow and denial of service vulnerabilities.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750645");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50481");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50486");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/01/9");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6476");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=39508");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=39500");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if(!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe:CPE, exit_no_version:TRUE))
exit(0);
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if(version_in_range(version:version, test_version:"1.4.0", test_version2:"1.4.9")||
version_in_range(version:version, test_version:"1.6.0", test_version2:"1.6.2")) {
security_message(port:0, data:"The target host was found to be vulnerable");
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=39500
anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=39508
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/01/9
www.securityfocus.com/bid/50481
www.securityfocus.com/bid/50486
bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6476
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750645