PT-2012-2260 · Wireshark+3 · Wireshark+3

Published 2012-04-11 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2012-0042

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

2.9

Low

Base vector

AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wireshark versions 1.4.x through 1.4.10 Wireshark versions 1.6.x through 1.6.4

Description The issue is related to improper string conversions, which can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This is achieved by sending a crafted packet, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference and application crash. The problem is associated with the epan/to str.c file.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 1.4.x through 1.4.10, update to version 1.4.11 or later. For Wireshark versions 1.6.x through 1.6.4, update to version 1.6.5 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CESA-2012_0509

CVE-2012-0042

DSA-2395-1

RHSA-2012:0509

RHSA-2012_0509

RHSA-2013:0125

RHSA-2013_0125

Affected Products

Centos

Red Hat

Suse

Wireshark

References · 80

• 🔥 https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6634 · Exploit
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-1590 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2175 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-0042 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2174 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-1143 · Security Note
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0125.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-02.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2597 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-1959 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-1595 · Security Note
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2012-0509.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-0042 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-0042 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-1957 · Security Note