CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-4048

3.3 LOW Published 2012-07-24 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-07-24
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.3 LOW — AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-94

Description

The PPP dissector in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.14, 1.6.x before 1.6.9, and 1.8.x before 1.8.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted packet, as demonstrated by a usbmon dump.

Affected configurations

• 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 • wireshark wireshark 1.4.11 • wireshark wireshark 1.4.12 • wireshark wireshark 1.4.13 • debian debian linux 6.0 • wireshark wireshark 1.8.0 • 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 • wireshark wireshark 1.6.5 • wireshark wireshark 1.6.6 • wireshark wireshark 1.6.7 • wireshark wireshark 1.6.8

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness

References