CVE-2010-4538
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 29.0%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 29.0% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-4504)
- Published
- January 7, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-4504 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- wireshark / wireshark
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053042.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053061.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/31/7
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/03/8
- http://osvdb.org/70244
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42767(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42853
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42910
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42914
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2144
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:002
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0013.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45634
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024930
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0008
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0053
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0069
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0079
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0099
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0110
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5539(Exploit, Patch)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14937
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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