CVE-2011-0445: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ASN.1 BER dissector in Wireshark 1.4.0 through 1.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure) via crafted packets, as demonstrated by fuzz-2010-12-30-28473.pcap.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 1.4.0 only; version 1.4.1 only; version 1.4.2 only

Published 2011-01-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.