Resource Management Errors Affecting wireshark package, versions [,1.2.12)[1.4.0,1.4.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.7% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WIRESHARK-2318297
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed26 Nov 2010
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Nov 2010

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

How to fix?

Upgrade wireshark to version 1.2.12, 1.4.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. 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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