CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-5238

3.3 LOW Published 2012-10-04 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-10-04
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

Description

epan/dissectors/packet-ppp.c in the PPP dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.3 uses incorrect OUI data structures during the decoding of (1) PPP and (2) LCP data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) via a malformed packet.

Affected configurations

• wireshark wireshark 1.8.0 • wireshark wireshark 1.8.1 • wireshark wireshark 1.8.2

References