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CVE-2012-0042

CVE-2012-0042

EPSS 1.9%
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.
Affected products
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References
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=40194http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0125.htmlhttps://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6634http://secunia.com/advisories/47494http://secunia.com/advisories/48947http://secunia.com/advisories/54425https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15368http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xmlhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/11/7http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026507http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-02.html