PT-2012-2259 · Wireshark+3 · Wireshark+3

Gerald Combs · Published 2012-02-23 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2012-0041

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wireshark versions 1.4.x through 1.4.10 Wireshark versions 1.6.x through 1.6.4

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash, by sending a long packet in a capture file. This can be demonstrated using an airopeek file.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 1.4.x through 1.4.10, update to version 1.4.11 or later. For Wireshark versions 1.6.x through 1.6.4, update to version 1.6.5 or later.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CESA-2012_0509

CVE-2012-0041

DSA-2395-1

RHSA-2012:0509

RHSA-2012_0509

RHSA-2013:0125

RHSA-2013_0125

SUSE-SU-2012_0296-1

SUSE-SU-2012_0296-2

Affected Products

Centos

Red Hat

Suse

Wireshark

References · 97

• 🔥 https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6663 · Exploit
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-1590 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2175 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2174 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-1143 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-0068 · Security Note
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0125.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-0041 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2597 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-0041 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-1959 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-1595 · Security Note
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2012-0509.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-1957 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-0042 · Security Note