Stack consumption vulnerability in the dissect_ber_unknown function in epan/dissectors/packet-ber.c in the BER dissector in Wireshark…

Description

Stack consumption vulnerability in the dissect_ber_unknown function in epan/dissectors/packet-ber.c in the BER dissector in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.1 and 1.2.x before 1.2.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a long string in an unknown ASN.1/BER encoded packet, as demonstrated using SNMP.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

4.1% · top 9.1% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-399 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-399 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (33)

• SUSE-SR:2011:001 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• ADV-2010-3093 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 43759 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• FEDORA-2011-2648 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• 43068 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 43197 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• FEDORA-2011-2620 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• ADV-2011-0212 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14607 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• ADV-2011-0626 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• MDVSA-2010:200 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-3445 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• VU#215900 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5230 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20101011 Re: CVE requests: Poppler, Quassel, Pyfribidi, Overkill, DocUtils, FireGPG, Wireshark (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• RHSA-2011:0370 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• ADV-2011-0719 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 42392 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-12.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/resource_management_errors_vulnerability_in (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 42877 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• SUSE-SR:2011:002 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• FEDORA-2011-2632 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• http://xorl.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/cve-2010-3445-wireshark-asn-1-ber-stack-overflow/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• RHSA-2010:0924 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• ADV-2011-0404 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• ADV-2011-0076 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• ADV-2010-3067 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• DSA-2127 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• 20100913 Wireshark 1.4.0 Malformed SNMP V1 Packet Denial of Service (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 42411 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20101001 Re: CVE requests: Poppler, Quassel, Pyfribidi, Overkill, DocUtils, FireGPG, Wireshark (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• 43821 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 03:11 UTC.