PT-2012-3365 · Wireshark+1 · Wireshark+1

Huzaifa Sidhpurwala

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Published

2012-04-11

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Updated

2017-12-29

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CVE-2012-1593

CVSS v2.0

3.3

Low

VectorAV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wireshark versions 1.4.x through 1.4.11 Wireshark versions 1.6.x through 1.6.5
Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference and application crash, via a malformed packet. This is due to a problem in the ANSI A dissector.
Recommendations For Wireshark versions 1.4.x through 1.4.11, update to version 1.4.12 or later. For Wireshark versions 1.6.x through 1.6.5, update to version 1.6.6 or later.

Exploit

Fix

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Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-1593
SUSE-SU-2012_0574-1
SUSE-SU-2012_0576-1

Affected Products

Suse
Wireshark