PT-2012-5313 · Wireshark · Wireshark

Published 2012-08-16 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2012-4286

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 1.8.0 through 1.8.1

Description The issue allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a divide-by-zero error and application crash, via a crafted pcap-ng file. This is due to a problem in the pcapng read packet block function in the pcap-ng file parser.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 1.8.0 through 1.8.1, update to version 1.8.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-189

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-4286

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1

Affected Products

Wireshark

References · 279

• 🔥 https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7533 · Exploit
• https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15514562 · Vendor Advisory
• http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/wiretap/pcapng.c?r1=44074&r2=44073&pathrev=44074 · Patch
• http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?revision=44074&view=revision · Patch
• http://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-24.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4286 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-4286 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-4286 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4286 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-6243 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-6428 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-3558 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1576 · Note