CVE-2011-2698: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Off-by-one error in the elem_cell_id_aux function in epan/dissectors/packet-ansi_a.c in the ANSI MAP dissector in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.8 and 1.6.x before 1.6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an invalid packet.

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; version 1.4.5 only; …

Published 2011-08-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.