CVE-2012-0042

Name	CVE-2012-0042
Description	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-2395-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
wireshark (PTS)	bullseye	3.4.10-0+deb11u1	fixed
	bullseye (security)	3.4.16-0+deb11u1	fixed
	bookworm	4.0.17-0+deb12u1	fixed
	bookworm (security)	4.0.11-1~deb12u1	fixed
	sid, trixie	4.4.2-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
wireshark	source	squeeze	1.2.11-6+squeeze6		DSA-2395-1
wireshark	source	(unstable)	1.6.5-1	unimportant

Not suitable for code injection