wireshark — security advisory
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.
- Products
- wireshark
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.2.11-3
- CVEs
- CVE-2010-3445
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:34 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2010-3445
wireshark
Fixed versions: 1.2.11-3
wireshark
Fixed versions: 1.2.11-3
wireshark
Fixed versions: 1.2.11-3
Complete source record
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