RCE in Wireshark
CVE-2012-4048
The PPP dissector in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.14, 1.6.x before 1.6.9, and 1.8.x before 1.8.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted packet, as demonstrated by a usbmon dump.
Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 3.3 (Low). Vector: AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.014 (71.4th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 71st percentile — 71.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.014 · newest: 0.014 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Wireshark — versions 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2
- Debian Linux — versions 6.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/49971 (third-party-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2590 (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/54425 (third-party-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15547 (signature, vdb-entry)
- bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml (vendor-advisory)
- www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-11.html (Vendor Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00000.html (vendor-advisory)