CVE-2011-1142

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Mar 3, 2011
Updated: Oct 21, 2024
Reserved: Mar 2, 2011

Description

Stack consumption vulnerability in the dissect_ber_choice function in the BER dissector in Wireshark 1.2.x through 1.2.15 and 1.4.x through 1.4.4 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via vectors involving self-referential ASN.1 CHOICE values.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.15.html
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.4.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1516
ADV-2011-0622vdb-entry
MDVSA-2011:044vendor-advisory
1025148vdb-entry
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14724vdb-entrysignature

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