CVE-2011-1957: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The dissect_dcm_main function in epan/dissectors/packet-dcm.c in the DICOM dissector in Wireshark 1.2.x before 1.2.17 and 1.4.x before 1.4.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an invalid PDU length.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 1.2 only; version 1.2.0 only; version 1.2.1 only; version 1.2.2 only; version 1.2.3 only; version 1.2.4 only; …

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