PT-2011-1597 · Wireshark+1 · Wireshark+1

Published 2011-01-07 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2010-4538

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wireshark version 1.4.2

Description A buffer overflow issue exists in the sect enttec dmx da function, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted ENTTEC DMX packet with Run Length Encoding (RLE) compression.

Recommendations For Wireshark version 1.4.2, consider updating to a newer version to mitigate the risk of exploitation. As a temporary workaround, restrict access to the vulnerable function until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-4538

DSA-2144-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1

RHSA-2011:0013

RHSA-2011_0013

Affected Products

Red Hat

Wireshark

References · 293

• 🔥 https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5539 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/15898 · Exploit
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:002 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2010-4538 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42767 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4538 · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0013.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053061.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053042.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4538 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2144 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2010-4538 · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2011-0013.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-6243 · Note