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CVE-2012-0042 — Wireshark 1

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.

CVSS

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EPSS

38.00% (top 40.70%)

CWE

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Published

2012-04-11T10:00:00.000Z

Last modified

2024-08-06T18:09:17.368Z

CVSS vector

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01What is this vulnerability?

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

Published: 2012-04-11T10:00:00.000Z
Last modified: 2024-08-06T18:09:17.368Z

09References

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

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