CVE-2010-0304: Wireshark

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 74.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple buffer overflows in the LWRES dissector in Wireshark 0.9.15 through 1.0.10 and 1.2.0 through 1.2.5 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed packet, as demonstrated using a stack-based buffer overflow to the dissect_getaddrsbyname_request function.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 0.9.15 only; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; …

Published 2010-02-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.