Published: 04/10/2012 Updated: 19/09/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 3.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 6.5

VMScore: 294

Vector: AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

epan/dissectors/packet-ppp.c in the PPP dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x prior to 1.8.3 uses incorrect OUI data structures during the decoding of (1) PPP and (2) LCP data, which allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) via a malformed packet.

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wireshark wireshark 1.8.1
wireshark wireshark 1.8.2
wireshark wireshark 1.8.0

Debian Bug report logs - #689972 wireshark: CVE-2012-5237 CVE-2012-5238 CVE-2012-5240 Package: wireshark; Maintainer for wireshark is Balint Reczey <rbalint@ubuntucom>; Source for wireshark is src:wireshark (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutilorg> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 15:45:01 UTC Se ...

Debian Bug report logs - #776135 wireshark: Multiple security issues in 1122 and prior versions Package: wireshark; Maintainer for wireshark is Balint Reczey <rbalint@ubuntucom>; Source for wireshark is src:wireshark (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: balint@balintreczeyhu Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 10:51:01 UTC Severity: ...

Debian Bug report logs - #780372 CVE-2015-2187 CVE-2015-2188 CVE-2015-2189 CVE-2015-2190 CVE-2015-2191 CVE-2015-2192 Package: wireshark; Maintainer for wireshark is Balint Reczey <rbalint@ubuntucom>; Source for wireshark is src:wireshark (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debianorg> Date: Th ...

NVD-CWE-noinfo http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-27.html http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=42989 http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=44688 http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-ppp.c?r1=42989&r2=42988&pathrev=42989 http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-ppp.c?r1=44688&r2=44687&pathrev=44688 https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7668 https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7316 http://osvdb.org/85883 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027604 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55754 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79010 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15593 https://nvd.nist.gov https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=689972

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