cve-2012-5240
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-10-04 19:00
Modified
2024-08-06 20:58
Severity ?
Summary
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.
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