CVE-2012-0042
Wireshark NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of Service Vulnerability
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.
INFO
Published Date :
April 11, 2012, 10:39 a.m.
Last Modified :
Nov. 21, 2024, 1:34 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
No
Impact Score :
2.9
Exploitability Score :
5.5
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=40194 Added Reference http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0125.html Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/47494 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/48947 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/54425 Added Reference http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/11/7 Added Reference http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026507 Added Reference http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-02.html Added Reference https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6634 Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15368 -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Sep. 19, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15368 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15368 [No Types Assigned] -
Modified Analysis by [email protected]
Dec. 02, 2015
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed Evaluator Description Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html 'CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference' Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html 'CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference' Changed CPE Configuration Configuration 1 OR *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:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Configuration 2 OR *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:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Configuration 1 OR *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:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Configuration 2 OR *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Configuration 3 OR *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:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Added CWE NVD-CWE-Other -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Apr. 11, 2012
Action Type Old Value New Value
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
While CVE identifies
specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2012-0042 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2012-0042
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
0.47 }} 0.02%
score
0.75409
percentile