Vulnerability in Wireshark

CVE-2010-3445

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.

EPSS: 0.041 (89.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Wireshark — versions 1.2.8, 1.2.10, 1.2.5
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References