CVE-2010-2995: wireshark Numeric Errors
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2010-2995 is a high (CVSS 10.0) Numeric Errors vulnerability in wireshark. EPSS estimates a 6.73% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93.8% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 2Timeline
- 13-08-2010PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 07-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
The SigComp Universal Decompressor Virtual Machine (UDVM) in Wireshark 0.10.8 through 1.0.14 and 1.2.0 through 1.2.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to sigcomp-udvm.c and an off-by-one error, which triggers a buffer overflow, different vulnerabilities than CVE-2010-2287.
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
6.73%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
94%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 6.73% on 19-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Debian1 product
- wireshark< 1.2.10-1
Wireshark1 product
- wiresharkEOL0.10.8 | 0.10.9 | 0.10.10 | 0.10.11 | 0.10.12 | 0.10.13 | 0.10.14 | 1.0.0 | 1.0.1 | 1.0.2 | 1.0.3 | 1.0.4 | 1.0.5 | 1.0.6 | 1.0.7 | 1.0.8 | 1.0.9 | 1.0.10 | 1.0.11 | 1.0.12 | 1.0.13 | 1.0.14 | 1.2 | 1.2.0 | 1.2.1 | 1.2.2 | 1.2.3 | 1.2.4 | 1.2.5 | 1.2.6 | 1.2.7 | 1.2.8 | 1.2.9
2 vendors · 2 products
References
10 links- bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4867X Refsource CONFIRM
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12049VDB EntrySignatureX Refsource OVAL