CVE-2012-0042

Severity

28%

Complexity

55%

Confidentiality

48%

Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html 'CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference'

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.

Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html 'CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference'

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.9. CVSS Attack Vector: adjacent_network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 12 years ago

2012-04-11 10:39:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-09-19 01:34:00

Affected Software

Wireshark 1.6.0

1.6.0

Wireshark 1.6.1

1.6.1

Wireshark 1.6.2

1.6.2

Wireshark 1.6.3

1.6.3

Wireshark 1.6.4

1.6.4

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

5

Wireshark 1.4.0

1.4.0

Wireshark 1.4.1

1.4.1

Wireshark 1.4.2

1.4.2

Wireshark 1.4.3

1.4.3

Wireshark 1.4.4

1.4.4

Wireshark 1.4.5

1.4.5

Wireshark 1.4.6

1.4.6

Wireshark 1.4.7

1.4.7

Wireshark 1.4.8

1.4.8

Wireshark 1.4.9

1.4.9

Wireshark 1.4.10

1.4.10

References

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=40194

Patch

RHSA-2013:0125

47494

48947

54425

GLSA-201308-05

[oss-security] 20120111 Re: CVE request: Wireshark multiple vulnerabilities

1026507

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-02.html

Vendor Advisory

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6634

Exploit, Patch

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15368

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