Bug 357229 (CVE-2011-1142)

Summary:	net-analyzer/wireshark: DoS, infinite loop in BER dissector, ASN.1 related (CVE-2011-1142)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) <phajdan.jr>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	minor	CC:	netmon, pva, zerochaos
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1516
Whiteboard:	B3 [noglsa]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-03-03 15:16:57 UTC

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.

Comment 1 Sergey Popov gentoo-dev

2013-08-28 06:12:20 UTC

Two years old, vulnerable versions gone from tree long time ago, GLSA for new versions pending. Marking this as OBSOLETE