CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-0042
2.9 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-04-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.9 LOW — AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.11 and 1.6.x before 1.6.5 does not properly perform certain string conversions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted packet, related to epan/to_str.c.
Affected configurations
• wireshark wireshark 1.6.0
• wireshark wireshark 1.6.1
• wireshark wireshark 1.6.2
• wireshark wireshark 1.6.3
• wireshark wireshark 1.6.4
• redhat enterprise linux 5
• wireshark wireshark 1.4.0
• wireshark wireshark 1.4.1
• wireshark wireshark 1.4.2
• wireshark wireshark 1.4.3
• wireshark wireshark 1.4.4
• wireshark wireshark 1.4.5
• wireshark wireshark 1.4.6
• wireshark wireshark 1.4.7
• wireshark wireshark 1.4.8
• wireshark wireshark 1.4.9
• wireshark wireshark 1.4.10
References
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=40194 Patch
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0125.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47494 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48947 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54425 secunia.com
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml www.gentoo.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/11/7 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026507 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-02.html Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6634 Exploit, Patch
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15368 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=40194 Patch
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0125.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47494 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48947 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54425 secunia.com
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml www.gentoo.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/11/7 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026507 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-02.html Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6634 Exploit, Patch
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15368 oval.cisecurity.org