Wireshark -- DoS in the BER-based dissectors

Description:

Secunia reports:

A vulnerability has been discovered in Wireshark, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an infinite recursion error in the "dissect_unknown_ber()" function in epan/dissectors/packet-ber.c and can be exploited to cause a stack overflow e.g. via a specially crafted SNMP packet.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.4.0 and reported in version 1.2.11 and prior and version 1.4.0 and prior.

References:

• CVE name CVE-2010-3445
• URL: <http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-announce/201010/msg00002.html>
• URL: <http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-announce/201010/msg00001.html>

Affects:

• wireshark >=1.3 <1.4.1
• wireshark >=1.0 <1.2.12
• wireshark-lite >=1.3 <1.4.1
• wireshark-lite >=1.0 <1.2.12
• tshark >=1.3 <1.4.1
• tshark >=1.0 <1.2.12
• tshark-lite >=1.3 <1.4.1
• tshark-lite >=1.0 <1.2.12

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