Description
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
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-02.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54425 ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0125.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48947 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/11/7 ↗
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026507 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47494 ↗
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml ↗
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=40194 ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15368 ↗
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6634 ↗