CVE-2011-1142

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

03/03/2011

Last modified:

11/04/2025

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

7.50

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

5.00

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.6:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.7:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.8:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.9:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.10:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.11:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.12:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.13:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.14:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.6:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.7:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.8:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.9:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.10:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.11:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.12:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.13:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.14:::::::*

CVE-2011-1142

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools