CVE-2011-1142

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-03-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-835

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.

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4, 1.2.5 (+15)

References

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:044
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025148
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0622
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.15.html
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.4.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1516
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14724
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:044
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025148
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0622
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.15.html
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.4.html

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