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.
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Affected Vendors & Products
Advisories
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Debian DSA |
DSA-2395-1 | wireshark security update |
EUVD |
EUVD-2012-0082 | 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. |
Fixes
Solution
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Workaround
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History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T18:09:17.368Z
Reserved: 2011-12-07T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2012-0042
No data.
Status : Deferred
Published: 2012-04-11T10:39:25.700
Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963
Link: CVE-2012-0042
OpenCVE Enrichment
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Debian DSA
EUVD