CVE-2010-3445

wireshark: stack overflow in BER dissector

Published Nov 26, 2010 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 4.1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2127-1 New wireshark packages fix denial of service
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2010-3443 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.
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http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2010-09/0088.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/resource_management_errors_vulnerability_in cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055364.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055650.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055664.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00003.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/42392 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/42411 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/42877 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/43068 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/43759 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/43821 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2127 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/215900 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:200 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/01/10 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/12/1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0924.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0370.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43197 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3067 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3093 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0076 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0404 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0626 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0719 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-12.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://xorl.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/cve-2010-3445-wireshark-asn-1-ber-stack-overflow/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5230 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-3445 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-3445 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14607 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-3445 cve-icon
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 3:11 AM
Reserved
Sep 17, 2010, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Nov 26, 2010, 7:00 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 11:22 PM
Severity
Low
Public date
Sep 13, 2010, 12:00 AM