CVE-2010-2992

medium
Published 2010-08-13 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

packet-gsm_a_rr.c in the GSM A RR dissector in Wireshark 1.2.2 through 1.2.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unknown vectors that trigger a NULL pointer dereference.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.2.10-1
sid Fixed 1.2.10-1
forky Fixed 1.2.10-1
bullseye Fixed 1.2.10-1
bookworm Fixed 1.2.10-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
wiresharkwireshark1.2.2
wiresharkwireshark1.2.3
wiresharkwireshark1.2.4
wiresharkwireshark1.2.5
wiresharkwireshark1.2.6
wiresharkwireshark1.2.7
wiresharkwireshark1.2.8
wiresharkwireshark1.2.9

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.