68129 : Wireshark ASN.1 BER Dissector epan/dissectors/packet-ber.c dissect_unknown_ber() Function Overflow DoS
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2010-09-13

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2010-3445" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : Stack consumption vulnerability in the dissect_ber_unknown function in epan/dissectors/packet-ber.c in the BER dissector in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.1 and 1.2.x before 1.2.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a long string in an unknown ASN.1/BER encoded packet, as demonstrated using SNMP.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Denial of Service, Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Availability
Solution: Upgrade
Disclosure: Vendor Verified

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.4.1, 1.2.12 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

OVAL ID: 14607
CVE ID: 2010-3445 (see also: NVD)
CERT VU: 215900
Secunia Advisory ID: 41535 42392 42411 42877 43068 43759 43821 44018 46343
Bugtraq ID: 43197
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2010-3067 ADV-2010-3093 ADV-2011-0076 ADV-2011-0212 ADV-2011-0404 ADV-2011-0626 ADV-2011-0719
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2010-09/0088.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055364.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055650.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055664.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2010/Sep/87
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Oct/412
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/resource_management_errors_vulnerability_in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2010/msg00178.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201110-02.xml
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-12.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5230
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-3445
Other Advisory URL: http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2127
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:200
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/01/10
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/12/1
http://xorl.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/cve-2010-3445-wireshark-asn-1-ber-stack-overflow/
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/7850661
RedHat RHSA: RHSA-2010:0924 RHSA-2011:0370

Tools & Filters

	49978

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2010-11-29 | Disagree?

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