CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
AI Score
Confidence
Low
EPSS
Percentile
71.3%
Wireshark is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
# 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.902722");
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:"2011-08-26 14:59:42 +0200 (Fri, 26 Aug 2011)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2011-3266");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"2.6");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_name("Wireshark IKE Packet Denial of Service Vulnerability - Windows");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2011 Greenbone AG");
script_dependencies("gb_wireshark_detect_win.nasl");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_mandatory_keys("wireshark/windows/detected");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation allows attackers to send a specially crafted IKE
packet to cause the IKEv1 dissector to enter an infinite loop, which leads
to denial of service.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Wireshark version 1.6.0 to 1.6.1
Wireshark version 1.4.0 to 1.4.8 on Windows");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw is due to an error in 'IKEv1' protocol dissector and the
function 'proto_tree_add_item()', when add more than 1000000 items to a
proto_tree, that will cause a denial of service.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to the Wireshark version 1.4.9, 1.6.2 or later.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Wireshark is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://securitytracker.com/id?1025875");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/519049/100/0/threaded");
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:"1.6.0", test_version2:"1.6.1") ||
version_in_range(version:version, test_version:"1.4.0", test_version2:"1.4.8")) {
security_message(port:0, data:"The target host was found to be vulnerable");
exit(0);
}
exit(99);