CVE-2012-5238

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Summary

CVECVE-2012-5238
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-10-04 19:55:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
Descriptionepan/dissectors/packet-ppp.c in the PPP dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.3 uses incorrect OUI data structures during the decoding of (1) PPP and (2) LCP data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) via a malformed packet.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 3.3 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Adjacent
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Wireshark Wireshark 1.8.0 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 1.8.1 All All All
Application Wireshark Wireshark 1.8.2 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
code.wireshark Code Review - wireshark.git/tree af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 anonsvn.wireshark.org
Wireshark HSRP/PPP/LDP Bugs Let Remote Users Deny Service - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
code.wireshark Code Review - wireshark.git/tree af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 anonsvn.wireshark.org Patch
7668 – Buildbot crash output: randpkt-2012-08-27-31439.pcap af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.wireshark.org
osvdb.org/85883 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
Wireshark · wnpa-sec-2012-27 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.wireshark.org Vendor Advisory
7316 – Buildbot crash output: randpkt-2012-06-01-17523.pcap af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.wireshark.org
code.wireshark Code Review - wireshark.git/tree af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 anonsvn.wireshark.org Patch
Wireshark Versions Prior to 1.8.3 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
code.wireshark Code Review - wireshark.git/tree af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 anonsvn.wireshark.org
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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