CVE-2011-1142

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.

Published: Mar 3, 2011
Updated: Nov 9, 2025
CVE: CVE-2011-1142
Severity: High
Exploit:

CVSS v3:

Severity: High
Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2:

Severity: Medium
Score: 5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWEs:

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
wireshark / wireshark	1.4.2	1.4.2.x
wireshark / wireshark	1.2.7	1.2.7.x
wireshark / wireshark	1.4.0	1.4.0.x
wireshark / wireshark	1.2.11	1.2.11.x
wireshark / wireshark	1.2.10	1.2.10.x
wireshark / wireshark	1.2.6	1.2.6.x
wireshark / wireshark	1.2.8	1.2.8.x
wireshark / wireshark	1.2.0	1.2.0.x
wireshark / wireshark	1.2.15	1.2.15.x
wireshark / wireshark	1.2.14	1.2.14.x
wireshark / wireshark	1.2.3	1.2.3.x
wireshark / wireshark	1.2.12	1.2.12.x
wireshark / wireshark	1.4.4	1.4.4.x
wireshark / wireshark	1.2.13	1.2.13.x
wireshark / wireshark	1.2.5	1.2.5.x
wireshark / wireshark	1.2.1	1.2.1.x
wireshark / wireshark	1.2.4	1.2.4.x
wireshark / wireshark	1.4.3	1.4.3.x
wireshark / wireshark	1.2.9	1.2.9.x
wireshark / wireshark	1.2.2	1.2.2.x
wireshark / wireshark	1.4.1	1.4.1.x

Vulnerability Database

314,343

CVE-2011-1142

Deep Security Visibility Without the Complexity