Bug 842516 (CVE-2012-4048) - CVE-2012-4048 wireshark: Out-of-bounds memory write in PPP dissector
Summary: CVE-2012-4048 wireshark: Out-of-bounds memory write in PPP dissector
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-4048
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 842531
Blocks: 842520
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-07-24 05:20 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2021-02-23 14:14 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-04-22 21:28:27 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-07-24 05:20:47 UTC 
An out-of-bounds memory write error was found in the wireshark PPP dissector. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause wireshark executable to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running wireshark. 

Reference:
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-11.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=680056

Patch:
http://code.wireshark.org/git/?p=wireshark;a=commitdiff;h=1f37a8cf14ca63e7980694fc7807cb5a7d91dc97
Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-07-24 06:13:12 UTC 
Statement:

Not Vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of wireshark shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.
Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-07-24 06:22:40 UTC 
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 842531]
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