CVE-2012-0042 Information

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.

Reference

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=40194 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0125.html http://secunia.com/advisories/47494 http://secunia.com/advisories/48947 http://secunia.com/advisories/54425 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/11/7 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026507 http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-02.html https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6634 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A15368