CVE-2012-5240: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the dissect_tlv function in epan/dissectors/packet-ldp.c in the LDP dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed packet.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 1.8.0 only; version 1.8.1 only; version 1.8.2 only

Published 2012-10-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.