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Alpine Linux: CVE-2012-4285: Multiple vulnerabilities in wireshark < [1.4.15|1.6.10] allow remote denial of service

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2012-4285: Multiple vulnerabilities in wireshark < [1.4.15|1.6.10] allow remote denial of service

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/16/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
09/22/2017

Description

The dissect_pft function in epan/dissectors/packet-dcp-etsi.c in the DCP ETSI dissector in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.15, 1.6.x before 1.6.10, and 1.8.x before 1.8.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash) via a zero-length message.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-wireshark

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