CVE-2012-6053

Published: 05 December 2012

epan/dissectors/packet-usb.c in the USB dissector in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.12 and 1.8.x before 1.8.4 relies on a length field to calculate an offset value, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a zero value for this field.

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Status

Package	Release	Status
wireshark Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (1.6.12,1.8.4)




	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)	Not vulnerable (1.12.1+g01b65bf-2)
	Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)	Not vulnerable (1.10.6-1)

References

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-6053
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-usb.c?r1=45310&r2=45309&pathrev=45310
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7787
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-31.html
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=45310
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