Bug 681758 (CVE-2011-1142)

Summary:	CVE-2011-1142 Wireshark: Stack consumption vulnerability in BER dissector can cause DoS
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	huzaifas, jrusnack, jsafrane, rvokal
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-03-03 07:09:03 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2011-1142
the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2011-1142
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-1142
Assigned: 20110302
Reference: CONFIRM:http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.15.html
Reference: CONFIRM:http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.4.4.html
Reference: CONFIRM:https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1516

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.

Comment 7 Vincent Danen 2015-07-09 03:20:52 UTC

Statement:

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.