CVE-2012-0042 | BDVDB-2026-49801 Detail
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.
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-02.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54425
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0125.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48947
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/11/7
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026507
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47494
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=40194
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15368
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6634
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.