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wireshark — security advisory
Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.11 and 1.6.x before 1.6.5 does not properly perform certain string conversions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted packet, related to epan/to_str.c.
- Products
- wireshark
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.6.5-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2012-0042
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:31 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.11 and 1.6.x before 1.6.5 does not properly perform certain string conversions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted packet, related to epan/to_str.c.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2012-0042
wireshark
Fixed versions: 1.6.5-1
wireshark
Fixed versions: 1.6.5-1
wireshark
Fixed versions: 1.6.5-1
Complete source record
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"id": "818e4f341f4215158d29293cf0a6bbd90da3b7addaf2f8ad768c44aa6b1261c7",
"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-0042",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "DEBIAN-CVE-2012-0042",
"summary": "Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.11 and 1.6.x before 1.6.5 does not properly perform certain string conversions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted packet, related to epan/to_str.c.",
"evidence": "osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2012-0042",
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"evidence": "/affected/0/ranges"
}
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},
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"name": {
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}
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"severity": "unknown",
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"purl": "pkg:deb/debian/wireshark?arch=source&distro=bookworm",
"ecosystem": "Debian:12"
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},
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},
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],
"package": {
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"ecosystem": "Debian:14"
},
"database_specific": {
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},
"ecosystem_specific": {
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}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-23T17:47:45.836352466Z",
"provider": "osv",
"upstream": [
"CVE-2012-0042"
],
"references": [
"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-0042"
]
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2012-0042",
"evidence": "/upstream"
}
],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": null
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 418789,
"published_at": "2012-04-11T10:39:25.7+00:00"
}