CVE-2012-4048

Wireshark 1.4.x < 1.4.14, 1.6.x < 1.6.9, 1.8.x < 1.8.1 - Denial of Service via PPP Dissector

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (8)

Core 8
Core References
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/49971
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2590
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/54425
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15547
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=680056
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-11.html
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00000.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0021
EPSS Percentile 43.2%

Details

CWE
CWE-94
Status published
Products (18)
debian/debian_linux 6.0
wireshark/wireshark 1.4.0 (3 CPE variants)
wireshark/wireshark 1.4.1 (3 CPE variants)
wireshark/wireshark 1.4.2 (3 CPE variants)
wireshark/wireshark 1.4.3 (3 CPE variants)
wireshark/wireshark 1.4.4 (3 CPE variants)
wireshark/wireshark 1.4.5 (3 CPE variants)
wireshark/wireshark 1.4.6 (3 CPE variants)
wireshark/wireshark 1.4.7 (3 CPE variants)
wireshark/wireshark 1.4.8 (3 CPE variants)
... and 8 more
Published Jul 24, 2012
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026