CVE-2011-0445

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-01-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The ASN.1 BER dissector in Wireshark 1.4.0 through 1.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure) via crafted packets, as demonstrated by fuzz-2010-12-30-28473.pcap.

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/053650.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/053669.html
http://osvdb.org/70402
http://secunia.com/advisories/43175
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45775
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0079
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0270
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-02.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5537
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64625
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14505
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/053650.html

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