CVE-2010-4538

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 29.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-01-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the sect_enttec_dmx_da function in epan/dissectors/packet-enttec.c in Wireshark 1.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted ENTTEC DMX packet with Run Length Encoding (RLE) compression.

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 1.4.2

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053042.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053061.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/31/7
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/03/8
http://osvdb.org/70244
http://secunia.com/advisories/42767
http://secunia.com/advisories/42853
http://secunia.com/advisories/42910
http://secunia.com/advisories/42914
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2144
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:002
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0013.html

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