Vulnerability in Wireshark
CVE-2012-0042
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 2.9 (Low). Vector: AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.019 (78.3th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 78th percentile — 78.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.019 · newest: 0.019 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Wireshark — versions 1.6.0, 1.6.1, 1.6.2
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux — versions 5
References
- www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-02.html (Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/54425 (third-party-advisory)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0125.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/48947 (third-party-advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/11/7 (mailing-list)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/47494 (third-party-advisory)
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml (vendor-advisory)
- anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc (Patch)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15368 (signature, vdb-entry)