VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-0024

critical
Published 2011-03-28 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.3

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in wiretap/pcapng.c in Wireshark before 1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted capture file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.2-0-1
sid Fixed 1.2-0-1
forky Fixed 1.2-0-1
bullseye Fixed 1.2-0-1
bookworm Fixed 1.2-0-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
wiresharkwireshark{"endIncluding":"1.0.16"}
wiresharkwireshark0.99.2
wiresharkwireshark0.99.3
wiresharkwireshark0.99.4
wiresharkwireshark0.99.5
wiresharkwireshark0.99.6
wiresharkwireshark0.99.7
wiresharkwireshark0.99.8
wiresharkwireshark1.0.0
wiresharkwireshark1.0.1
wiresharkwireshark1.0.2
wiresharkwireshark1.0.3
wiresharkwireshark1.0.4
wiresharkwireshark1.0.5
wiresharkwireshark1.0.6
wiresharkwireshark1.0.7
wiresharkwireshark1.0.8
wiresharkwireshark1.0.9
wiresharkwireshark1.0.10
wiresharkwireshark1.0.11
wiresharkwireshark1.0.12
wiresharkwireshark1.0.13
wiresharkwireshark1.0.14
wiresharkwireshark1.0.15

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.