CVE-2012-0042

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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 2.9 Low

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2012-04-11

Last modified

2024-08-06

Affected products

• Enterprise Linux (Redhat)
• Wireshark (Wireshark)

References

• http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=40194
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0125.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/47494
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48947
• http://secunia.com/advisories/54425
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/11/7
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026507
• http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-02.html
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6634
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15368