CVE-2012-4048 - Influential Set

Description

The PPP dissector in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.14 1.6.x before 1.6.9 and 1.8.x before 1.8.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted packet as demonstrated by a usbmon dump.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=680056 http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-11.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00000.html http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2590 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml http://secunia.com/advisories/49971 http://secunia.com/advisories/54425 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15547