Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark 1.4.x and 1.6.x

CVE-2012-0042 · LOW Severity

AV:A/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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