CVE-2011-1142

high

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.

References

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1516

http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.4.html

http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.15.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2011-03-03

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00746