CVE-2011-3484: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The unxorFrame function in epan/dissectors/packet-opensafety.c in the OpenSafety dissector in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.2 does not properly validate a certain frame size, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (loop and application crash) via a malformed packet.

Affected products

  • Wireshark Wireshark: version 1.6.0 only; version 1.6.1 only

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