epan/dissectors/packet-3g-a11.c in the 3GPP2 A11 dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of…

Description

epan/dissectors/packet-3g-a11.c in the 3GPP2 A11 dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a zero value in a sub-type length field.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.9% · top 13% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-189 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-189 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-3g-a11.c?r1=45337&r2=45336&pathrev=45337 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16044 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-39.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2012:1633 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2013:0151 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=45337 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7801 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2012-6055](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2012-6055.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2012-6055)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 21:21 UTC.