CVE-2010-3445
wireshark - denial of service
EPSS 1.5%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2010-3445
To remediate CVE-2010-3445, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/wireshark—upgrade to 1.2.11-3 or later
- Debian/wireshark—upgrade to 1.0.2-3+lenny11 or later
Is CVE-2010-3445 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 1.2.11-3
- from 0, < 1.0.2-3+lenny11