CVE-2011-1591: Wireshark

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 41.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the DECT dissector in epan/dissectors/packet-dect.c in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted .pcap file.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 1.4.0 only; version 1.4.1 only; version 1.4.2 only; version 1.4.3 only; version 1.4.4 only

Published 2011-04-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.