Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark PPP Dissector

CVE-2012-4048 · LOW Severity

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

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.

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