CVE-2010-4538: Wireshark

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the sect_enttec_dmx_da function in epan/dissectors/packet-enttec.c in Wireshark 1.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted ENTTEC DMX packet with Run Length Encoding (RLE) compression.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 1.4.2 only

Published 2011-01-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.