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CVE-2011-3483

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-3483 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Wireshark versions 1.6.x prior to 1.6.2. An attacker can trigger an application crash by providing a specially crafted capture file that causes an invalid root tvbuff due to a buffer exception handling issue. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and potential for partial availability impact, requiring network access but no authentication. While not actively exploited in the wild or on the KEV catalog, a public exploit (EDB-36128) exists, and there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.57%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-36128 · Sep 8, 2011
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0557 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2011-3483Low

Wireshark: buffer exception handling vulnerability

Sep 7, 2011

References

bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14971
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/09/13/1
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/09/14/10
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/09/14/5
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/09/14/9
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2011-14.html