CVE-2012-4048 in Wireshark

Summary

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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Reservation

07/24/2012

Disclosure

07/24/2012

Moderation

VulDB entry created

Entries

1

CPE

ready

CWE

CWE-94

CVSS

4.3

EPSS

0.00209

CTI

None

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-4048
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4048
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2012-4048/