Security Advisory

CVE-2012-5238

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-10-04 19:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 20:58:03

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

epan/dissectors/packet-ppp.c in the PPP dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.3 uses incorrect OUI data structures during the decoding of (1) PPP and (2) LCP data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) via a malformed packet.

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