Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark BER Dissector

CVE-2011-1142 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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