PT-2012-3366 · Wireshark+1 · Wireshark+1

Huzaifa Sidhpurwala · Published 2012-04-11 · Updated 2017-12-29 · CVE-2012-1594

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

3.3

Low

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wireshark versions 1.6.x through 1.6.5

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an infinite loop, via a crafted packet. This is related to the IEEE 802.11 dissector in the epan/dissectors/packet-ieee80211.c file.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 1.6.x through 1.6.5, update to version 1.6.6 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Code Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-94

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-1594

Affected Products

Suse

Wireshark

References · 14

• 🔥 http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=40967 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1594 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-1594 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078770.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1594 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-1594 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6809 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/28/13 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1026874 · Note
• http://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-05.html · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74362 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48548 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15244 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/52738 · Note