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CVE-2011-0444

33
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-0444 is a critical buffer overflow vulnerability affecting Wireshark versions 1.2.0 through 1.2.13 and 1.4.0 through 1.4.2. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this flaw in the MAC-LTE dissector by sending a crafted packet with a large number of RARs, leading to a denial of service (crash) and potentially arbitrary code execution. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability is highly severe due to its network-based attack vector, low complexity, and complete impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been observed, and community discussion is minimal, the potential for severe impact warrants attention for affected systems.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
7.17%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0717 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.2.15-1.el6_0.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2011-0444Moderate

wireshark: buffer overflow in MAC-LTE disector (upstream bug #5530)

Jan 11, 2011

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/053650.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/053669.html
osvdb.org / 70403
bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/attachment.cgi
Patch
bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/43175
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/64624
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14283
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2011-0369.html
securityfocus.com / bid/45775
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0079
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0104
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0270
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0719
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2011-01.html
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2011-02.html