CVE-2011-3483: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 5.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed capture file that leads to an invalid root tvbuff, related to a "buffer exception handling vulnerability."

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 1.6.0 only; version 1.6.1 only

Published 2011-09-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.