CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-5240
5.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-10-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.8 MEDIUM — AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Buffer overflow in the dissect_tlv function in epan/dissectors/packet-ldp.c in the LDP dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed packet.
Affected configurations
• wireshark wireshark 1.8.0
• wireshark wireshark 1.8.1
• wireshark wireshark 1.8.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-ldp.c?r1=44801&r2=44800&pathrev=44801 anonsvn.wireshark.org
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=44801 anonsvn.wireshark.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55754 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027604 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-29.html Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7046 bugs.wireshark.org
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7567 bugs.wireshark.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15691 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-ldp.c?r1=44801&r2=44800&pathrev=44801 anonsvn.wireshark.org
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=44801 anonsvn.wireshark.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55754 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027604 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-29.html Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7046 bugs.wireshark.org
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7567 bugs.wireshark.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15691 oval.cisecurity.org