CVE-2012-0042

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    CVE-2012-0042

    Published: 11 Apr 2012Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0125.html, http://secunia.com/advisories/47494, http://secunia.com/advisories/48947, http://secunia.com/advisories/54425, http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-02.html, https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6634, http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=40194, https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6634, http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/11/7, http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026507, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15368

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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