CVE-2010-1455

medium
Published 2010-05-12 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

The DOCSIS dissector in Wireshark 0.9.6 through 1.0.12 and 1.2.0 through 1.2.7 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet trace file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.2.8-1
sid Fixed 1.2.8-1
forky Fixed 1.2.8-1
bullseye Fixed 1.2.8-1
bookworm Fixed 1.2.8-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
ethereal_groupethereal0.9.6
ethereal_groupethereal0.9.7
ethereal_groupethereal0.9.8
ethereal_groupethereal0.99.0
wiresharkwireshark0.9.6
wiresharkwireshark0.99.0
wiresharkwireshark0.99.1
wiresharkwireshark0.99.2
wiresharkwireshark0.99.3
wiresharkwireshark0.99.4
wiresharkwireshark0.99.5
wiresharkwireshark0.99.6
wiresharkwireshark0.99.7
wiresharkwireshark0.99.8
wiresharkwireshark1.0.0
wiresharkwireshark1.0.1
wiresharkwireshark1.0.2
wiresharkwireshark1.0.3
wiresharkwireshark1.0.4
wiresharkwireshark1.0.5
wiresharkwireshark1.0.6
wiresharkwireshark1.0.7
wiresharkwireshark1.0.8
wiresharkwireshark1.0.9
wiresharkwireshark1.0.10
wiresharkwireshark1.0.11
wiresharkwireshark1.0.12
wiresharkwireshark1.2.0
wiresharkwireshark1.2.1
wiresharkwireshark1.2.2
wiresharkwireshark1.2.3
wiresharkwireshark1.2.4
wiresharkwireshark1.2.5
wiresharkwireshark1.2.6
wiresharkwireshark1.2.7

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.