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CVE-2011-0445 json

The ASN.1 BER dissector in Wireshark 1.4.0 through 1.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure) via craft…

published 2011-01-12 15 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2011-0470

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.8%
EPSS 2.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 86%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The ASN.1 BER dissector in Wireshark 1.4.0 through 1.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure) via crafted packets, as demonstrated by fuzz-2010-12-30-28473.pcap.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2011-0445 updated cvss 4.3

wireshark: DoS via crafted packets to ASN.1 BER dissector (upstream bug #5537)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 wireshark Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 wireshark Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 wireshark, wireshark-gnome
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.78% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.