CVE-2011-0538
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 7.5%EU EUVD
Wireshark 1.2.0 through 1.2.14, 1.4.0 through 1.4.3, and 1.5.0 frees an uninitialized pointer during processing of a .pcap file in the pcap-ng format, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed file.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 7.5% (95th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-0556)
- Published
- February 8, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-0556 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
- wireshark / wireshark
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055364.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055650.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055664.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/04/1(Patch)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43759(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43795(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43821(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2201
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/215900(US Government Resource)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:044
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0369.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0370.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46167(Exploit)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025148
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0622(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0626(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0719(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0747(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.15.html
- http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.4.html
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-03.html
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-04.html
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5652(Exploit, Patch)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676232
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65182
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14605
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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