Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting wireshark package, versions [,1.8.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WIRESHARK-2318163
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed4 Oct 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Oct 2012

CVE-2012-5238  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wireshark to version 1.8.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) epan/dissectors/packet-ppp.c in the PPP dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.3 uses incorrect OUI data structures during the decoding of (1) PPP and (2) LCP data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) via a malformed packet.

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