Executive Summary

Informations
NameMDVSA-2011:007First vendor Publication2011-01-14
VendorMandrivaLast vendor Modification2011-01-14
Severity (Vendor) N/ARevisionN/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score10Attack RangeNetwork
Cvss Impact Score10Attack ComplexityLow
Cvss Expoit Score10AuthentificationNone Required
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Detail

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in wireshark:

Buffer overflow in the MAC-LTE dissector (epan/dissectors/packet-mac-lte.c) in Wireshark 1.2.0 through 1.2.13 and 1.4.0 through 1.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large number of RARs (CVE-2011-0444).

The updated packages have been upgraded to the latest version (1.2.14) which is not affected by this issue.

Original Source

Url : http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:007

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

idName
CWE-119Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14283
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14283
Title: Buffer overflow in the MAC-LTE dissector in Wireshark 1.2.0 through 1.2.13 and 1.4.0 through 1.4.2
Description: Buffer overflow in the MAC-LTE dissector (epan/dissectors/packet-mac-lte.c) in Wireshark 1.2.0 through 1.2.13 and 1.4.0 through 1.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large number of RARs.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2011-0444
Version: 4
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows 7
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows XP
Product(s): Wireshark
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application18

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

idDescription
70403Wireshark MAC-LTE Dissector RAR Saturation Overflow