Wireshark Denial of Service Vulnerability - Mac OS X

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:wireshark:wireshark";

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.903024");
  script_version("2025-03-05T05:38:53+0000");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2011-0538");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.8");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-03-05 05:38:53 +0000 (Wed, 05 Mar 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2012-04-25 17:03:00 +0530 (Wed, 25 Apr 2012)");
  script_name("Wireshark Denial of Service Vulnerability - Mac OS X");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/65182");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46167");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/04/1");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5652");

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2012 Greenbone AG");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family("Denial of Service");
  script_dependencies("gb_wireshark_detect_macosx.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("wireshark/macosx/detected");
  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation could allow attackers to cause a denial of
  service, execution of arbitrary code.");
  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Wireshark version 1.5.0
  Wireshark version 1.2.0 through 1.2.14
  Wireshark version 1.4.0 through 1.4.3");
  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw is due to uninitialized pointer during processing of a '.pcap'
  file in the pcap-ng format.");
  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to Wireshark version 1.2.15 or 1.4.4 or later.");
  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Wireshark is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if(!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe:CPE, exit_no_version:TRUE))
  exit(0);

version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];

if(version_in_range(version:version, test_version:"1.4.0", test_version2:"1.4.3")||
   version_in_range(version:version, test_version:"1.2.0", test_version2:"1.2.14")||
   version_is_equal(version:version, test_version:"1.5.0")) {
  security_message(port:0, data:"The target host was found to be vulnerable");
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);