CVE-2010-1455: Ethereal Group Ethereal

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The DOCSIS dissector in Wireshark 0.9.6 through 1.0.12 and 1.2.0 through 1.2.7 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet trace file.

Affected products

• Ethereal Group Ethereal: version 0.9.6 only; version 0.9.7 only; version 0.9.8 only; version 0.99.0 only
• Wireshark Wireshark: version 0.9.6 only; version 0.99.0 only; version 0.99.1 only; version 0.99.2 only; version 0.99.3 only; version 0.99.4 only; …

Published 2010-05-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.