CVE-2012-1593
LOW severity · CVSS 3.3
3.3CVSS LOW
Summary
epan/dissectors/packet-ansi_a.c in the ANSI A dissector in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.12 and 1.6.x before 1.6.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a malformed packet.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorAdjacent
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)11%
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=40962
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078769.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078770.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-04/msg00060.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48548
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48986
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18758
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/28/13