CVE-2011-2174
EPSS 2.9%
Description
Double free vulnerability in the tvb_uncompress function in epan/tvbuff.c in Wireshark 1.2.x before 1.2.17 and 1.4.x before 1.4.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a packet with malformed data that uses zlib compression.
How to fix CVE-2011-2174
To remediate CVE-2011-2174, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/wireshark—upgrade to 1.6.0-1 or later
Is CVE-2011-2174 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 2.9%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 1.6.0-1