CVE-2010-2995

critical
Published 2010-08-13 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

The SigComp Universal Decompressor Virtual Machine (UDVM) in Wireshark 0.10.8 through 1.0.14 and 1.2.0 through 1.2.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to sigcomp-udvm.c and an off-by-one error, which triggers a buffer overflow, different vulnerabilities than CVE-2010-2287.

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 1.2.10-1
sid Fixed 1.2.10-1
forky Fixed 1.2.10-1
bullseye Fixed 1.2.10-1
bookworm Fixed 1.2.10-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
wiresharkwireshark0.10.8
wiresharkwireshark0.10.9
wiresharkwireshark0.10.10
wiresharkwireshark0.10.11
wiresharkwireshark0.10.12
wiresharkwireshark0.10.13
wiresharkwireshark0.10.14
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
wiresharkwireshark1.0.13
wiresharkwireshark1.0.14
wiresharkwireshark1.2
wiresharkwireshark1.2.0
wiresharkwireshark1.2.1
wiresharkwireshark1.2.2
wiresharkwireshark1.2.3
wiresharkwireshark1.2.4
wiresharkwireshark1.2.5
wiresharkwireshark1.2.6
wiresharkwireshark1.2.7
wiresharkwireshark1.2.8
wiresharkwireshark1.2.9

References

CWEs

CWE-189

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

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