CVE-2012-4048

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-07-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

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.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 6.0
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.4.4, 1.4.5 (+18)

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=680056
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/49971
http://secunia.com/advisories/54425
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2590
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-11.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15547
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=680056
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/49971
http://secunia.com/advisories/54425

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