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.
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