CVE-2012-6055: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 1.8.0 only; version 1.8.1 only; version 1.8.2 only; version 1.8.3 only

Published 2012-12-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.