Resource Management Errors Affecting wireshark package, versions <0:1.2.13-1.0.1.el6_0.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.7% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE6-WIRESHARK-2455879
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed26 Nov 2010

Introduced: 26 Nov 2010

CVE-2010-3445  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:6 wireshark to version 0:1.2.13-1.0.1.el6_0.2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2011-0013.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream wireshark package and not the wireshark package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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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