CVE-2012-4048

N/A Unknown
Published: July 24, 2012 Modified: April 29, 2026
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Description

The PPP dissector in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.14, 1.6.x before 1.6.9, and 1.8.x before 1.8.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted packet, as demonstrated by a usbmon dump.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=680056
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00000.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://secunia.com/advisories/49971
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://secunia.com/advisories/54425
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2590
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-11.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15547
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=680056
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00000.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/49971
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/54425
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2590
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-11.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15547
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

16 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
1.4%
69th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-94

Affected Vendors

debian wireshark

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