CVE-2011-1142medium
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
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