CVE-2010-3445

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    CVE-2010-3445

    Published: 26 Nov 2010Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

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

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High