Bug 681758 – CVE-2011-1142 Wireshark: Stack consumption vulnerability in BER dissector can cause DoS

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Bug 681758 - (CVE-2011-1142) CVE-2011-1142 Wireshark: Stack consumption vulnerability in BER dissector can cause DoS

Summary:	CVE-2011-1142 Wireshark: Stack consumption vulnerability in BER dissector can...

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	CVE-2011-1142

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity low
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Reported:	2011-03-03 02:09 EST by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2015-08-19 05:07 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2015-07-08 23:20:52 EDT
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-03-03 02:09:03 EST

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 2015-07-08 23:20:52 EDT

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/.

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