VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-1142

high
Published 2011-03-03 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
—

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 1.4.4-1
sid Fixed 1.4.4-1
forky Fixed 1.4.4-1
bullseye Fixed 1.4.4-1
bookworm Fixed 1.4.4-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
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
wiresharkwireshark1.2.10
wiresharkwireshark1.2.11
wiresharkwireshark1.2.12
wiresharkwireshark1.2.13
wiresharkwireshark1.2.14
wiresharkwireshark1.2.15
wiresharkwireshark1.4.0
wiresharkwireshark1.4.1
wiresharkwireshark1.4.2
wiresharkwireshark1.4.3
wiresharkwireshark1.4.4

References

CWEs

CWE-835

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

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