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.

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Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2274-1 wireshark security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2011-2166 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T22:53:16.996Z

Reserved: 2011-05-31T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2011-2174

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2011-06-06T19:55:02.893

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2011-2174

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2011-05-31T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2011-2174 - Bugzilla

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