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CVE-2012-0042 Details

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=40194	CVE	Patch
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0125.html	CVE
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6634	CVE	ExploitPatch
http://secunia.com/advisories/47494	CVE
http://secunia.com/advisories/48947	CVE
http://secunia.com/advisories/54425	CVE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15368	CVE
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml	CVE
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/11/7	CVE
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026507	CVE
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-02.html	CVE	Vendor Advisory
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=40194	[email protected]	Patch
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0125.html	[email protected]
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6634	[email protected]	ExploitPatch
http://secunia.com/advisories/47494	[email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/48947	[email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/54425	[email protected]
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15368	[email protected]
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml	[email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/11/7	[email protected]
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026507	[email protected]
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-02.html	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory

see all 22 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
NVD-CWE-Other	Weakness Not in a Standard CWE Category	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
wireshark wireshark	1.6.0 1.6.1 1.6.2 1.6.3 1.6.4
CPE cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.6.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.6.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.6.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.6.3:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.6.4:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.4.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.4.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.4.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.4.3:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.4.4:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.4.5:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.4.6:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.4.7:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.4.8:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.4.9:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.4.10:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.
redhat enterprise linux	5
CPE cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

7 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 16, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 29, 2026	Status Change	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Sep 19, 2017	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Dec 2, 2015	Modified Analysis	[email protected]
Apr 11, 2012	Initial Analysis	[email protected]