CVE-2012-0042
N/A
Published: April 11, 2012 at 10:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:36 PM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsEnterprise LinuxWireshark
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
Description
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (11)
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=40194Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0125.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xmlMailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/11/7Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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