CVE-2010-3445: wireshark Resource Management Errors
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2010-3445 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) Resource Management Errors vulnerability in wireshark. EPSS estimates a 4.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90.7% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 3 · Related 1Timeline
- 26-11-2010PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 07-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
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.
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
4.15%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
91%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 4.15% on 18-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
1 foundExploit Reference (xorl.wordpress.com)
Maturity: unknown
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Debian1 product
- wireshark< 1.2.11-3 | < 1.0.2-3+lenny11
Wireshark1 product
- wiresharkEOL1.2.0 | 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 | 1.2.10 | 1.2.11 | 1.4.0
2 vendors · 2 products
References
34 links- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055364.htmlVendor AdvisoryX Refsource FEDORA
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055664.htmlVendor AdvisoryX Refsource FEDORA
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14607VDB EntrySignatureX Refsource OVAL
Show all 34 references
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-3445X Refsource CONFIRM
- bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5230X Refsource CONFIRM
- www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-12.htmlX Refsource CONFIRM
- blogs.sun.com/security/entry/resource_management_errors_vulnerability_inX Refsource CONFIRM
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055650.htmlVendor AdvisoryX Refsource FEDORA
- xorl.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/cve-2010-3445-wireshark-asn-1-ber-stack-overflow/X Refsource MISCExploit
