CVE-2012-4048
EPSS 0.21%wireshark - several
Published: 7/24/2012Modified: 4/28/2026
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 packages (2)
- Debian/wiresharkfrom 0, < 1.8.2-1
- Debian/wiresharkfrom 0, < 1.2.11-6+squeeze8