PT-2012-3367 · Wireshark+3 · Wireshark+3

Laurent Butti · Published 2012-04-11 · Updated 2023-02-13 · CVE-2012-1595

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 1.4.11 Wireshark versions 1.6.x through 1.6.5

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash. This is achieved by providing a WTAP ENCAP ERF file that contains an Extension or Multi-Channel header with an invalid pseudoheader size. The problem is related to the pcap and pcap-ng file parsers.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 1.4.x through 1.4.11, update to version 1.4.12 or later. For Wireshark versions 1.6.x through 1.6.5, update to version 1.6.6 or later.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CESA-2012_0509

CVE-2012-1595

RHSA-2012:0509

RHSA-2012_0509

Affected Products

Centos

Red Hat

Suse

Wireshark

References · 77

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