CVE-2012-0042 (GCVE-0-2012-0042)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-04-11 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 18:09
VLAI
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 81/100 over 1018 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
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http://secunia.com/advisories/54425 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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http://secunia.com/advisories/48947 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/11/7 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026507 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://secunia.com/advisories/47494 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-20130… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?… x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2012-01-10 00:00
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