CVE-2010-3445

Public Exploit

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.

Category

5.0
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 3.08% Top 15%
Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org Vendor Advisory mandriva.com Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory debian.org
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00003.html vendor advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3093 vdb entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/43759 third party advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055364.html vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/43068 third party advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43197 vdb entry
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055664.html vendor advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212 vdb entry
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14607 signature vdb entry
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0626 vdb entry
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:200 vendor advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-3445
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/215900 third party advisory us government resource
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5230
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/12/1 mailing list
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0370.html vendor advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0719 vdb entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/42392 third party advisory
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-12.html
http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/resource_management_errors_vulnerability_in
http://secunia.com/advisories/42877 third party advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html vendor advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055650.html vendor advisory
http://xorl.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/cve-2010-3445-wireshark-asn-1-ber-stack-overflow/ exploit
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0924.html vendor advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0404 vdb entry
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0076 vdb entry
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3067 vdb entry
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2127 vendor advisory
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2010-09/0088.html mailing list
http://secunia.com/advisories/42411 third party advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/01/10 mailing list
http://secunia.com/advisories/43821 third party advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2010-3445?
CVE-2010-3445 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2010-3445?
To fix CVE-2010-3445, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2010-3445 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2010-3445 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~3% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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