FKIE_CVE-2012-0042

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2012-04-11 10:39 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:36
Severity
Summary
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
secalert@redhat.comhttp://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=40194Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0125.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/47494
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/48947
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/54425
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/11/7
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026507
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-02.htmlVendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6634Exploit, Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15368
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=40194Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0125.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/47494
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/48947
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/54425
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/11/7
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026507
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-02.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6634Exploit, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15368
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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
redhat enterprise_linux 5
wireshark wireshark 1.4.0
wireshark wireshark 1.4.1
wireshark wireshark 1.4.2
wireshark wireshark 1.4.3
wireshark wireshark 1.4.4
wireshark wireshark 1.4.5
wireshark wireshark 1.4.6
wireshark wireshark 1.4.7
wireshark wireshark 1.4.8
wireshark wireshark 1.4.9
wireshark wireshark 1.4.10
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