CVE-2012-5238

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

04/10/2012

Last modified:

11/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 3.30 LOW
Vector: AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Adjacent
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical