Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting wireshark package, versions [,1.4.12)[1.6.0,1.6.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
11.29% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WIRESHARK-2318292
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed11 Apr 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Apr 2012

CVE-2012-1593  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wireshark to version 1.4.12, 1.6.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) 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.

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CVSS Base Scores

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