CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-1142

7.5 HIGH Published 2011-03-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2011-03-03
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-835

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.

Affected configurations

• wireshark wireshark 1.2.0 • wireshark wireshark 1.2.1 • wireshark wireshark 1.2.2 • wireshark wireshark 1.2.3 • wireshark wireshark 1.2.4 • wireshark wireshark 1.2.5 • wireshark wireshark 1.2.6 • wireshark wireshark 1.2.7 • wireshark wireshark 1.2.8 • wireshark wireshark 1.2.9 • wireshark wireshark 1.2.10 • wireshark wireshark 1.2.11 • wireshark wireshark 1.2.12 • wireshark wireshark 1.2.13 • wireshark wireshark 1.2.14 • wireshark wireshark 1.2.15 • wireshark wireshark 1.4.0 • wireshark wireshark 1.4.1 • wireshark wireshark 1.4.2 • wireshark wireshark 1.4.3 • wireshark wireshark 1.4.4

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness

References