CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-0042

Published: Apr 11, 2012 | Modified: Sep 19, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
2.9 LOW
AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
2.9 LOW
AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Wireshark Wireshark 1.6.0 (including) 1.6.0 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 1.6.1 (including) 1.6.1 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 1.6.2 (including) 1.6.2 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 1.6.3 (including) 1.6.3 (including)
Wireshark Wireshark 1.6.4 (including) 1.6.4 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat wireshark-0:1.0.15-5.el5 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat wireshark-0:1.2.15-2.el6_2.1 *
Wireshark Ubuntu hardy *
Wireshark Ubuntu lucid *
Wireshark Ubuntu maverick *
Wireshark Ubuntu natty *
Wireshark Ubuntu oneiric *
Wireshark Ubuntu upstream *

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