VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-4048

low
Published 2012-07-24 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
3.3

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.

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 Mixed 6 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.8.2-1
sid Fixed 1.8.2-1
forky Fixed 1.8.2-1
bullseye Fixed 1.8.2-1
bookworm Fixed 1.8.2-1
6.0 Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
wiresharkwireshark1.4.0
wiresharkwireshark1.4.1
wiresharkwireshark1.4.2
wiresharkwireshark1.4.3
wiresharkwireshark1.4.4
wiresharkwireshark1.4.5
wiresharkwireshark1.4.6
wiresharkwireshark1.4.7
wiresharkwireshark1.4.8
wiresharkwireshark1.4.9
wiresharkwireshark1.4.10
wiresharkwireshark1.4.11
wiresharkwireshark1.4.12
wiresharkwireshark1.4.13
wiresharkwireshark1.8.0
wiresharkwireshark1.6.0
wiresharkwireshark1.6.1
wiresharkwireshark1.6.2
wiresharkwireshark1.6.3
wiresharkwireshark1.6.4
wiresharkwireshark1.6.5
wiresharkwireshark1.6.6
wiresharkwireshark1.6.7
wiresharkwireshark1.6.8

References

CWEs

CWE-94

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

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