CVE-2012-0042

Wireshark 1.4.x < 1.4.11 and 1.6.x < 1.6.5 - Denial of Service via String Conversion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (11)

Core 11
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-02.html
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/54425
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0125.html
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/48947
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/11/7
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026507
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/47494
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15368

Scores

EPSS 0.0038
EPSS Percentile 59.8%

Details

Status published
Products (17)
redhat/enterprise_linux 5
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 1.4.0
wireshark/wireshark 1.4.1
wireshark/wireshark 1.4.2
wireshark/wireshark 1.4.3
... and 7 more
Published Apr 11, 2012
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026