| Name | CVE-2011-1958 |
| Description | Wireshark 1.2.x before 1.2.17 and 1.4.x before 1.4.7 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted Diameter dictionary file. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SuSE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-2274-1 |
| NVD severity | medium (attack range: remote) |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| wireshark (PTS) | wheezy | 1.8.2-5wheezy18 | fixed |
| wheezy (security) | 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u6~deb7u4 | fixed | |
| jessie | 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u8 | fixed | |
| jessie (security) | 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u9 | fixed | |
| stretch, sid | 2.2.0+g5368c50-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wireshark | source | (unstable) | 1.6.0-1 | unimportant | ||
| wireshark | source | lenny | 1.0.2-3+lenny14 | medium | DSA-2274-1 | |
| wireshark | source | squeeze | 1.2.11-6+squeeze2 | medium | DSA-2274-1 |
Crashes w/o code injection not treated as security issues, see README.Security