PT-2012-5323 · Wireshark+1 · Wireshark+1

Laurent Butti · Published 2012-08-16 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2012-4296

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 1.4.x through 1.4.14 Wireshark versions 1.6.x through 1.6.9 Wireshark versions 1.8.x through 1.8.1

Description The issue is related to a buffer overflow in the RTPS2 dissector. This can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically CPU consumption, via a malformed packet.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 1.4.x through 1.4.14, update to version 1.4.15 or later. For Wireshark versions 1.6.x through 1.6.9, update to version 1.6.10 or later. For Wireshark versions 1.8.x through 1.8.1, update to version 1.8.2 or later.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-4296

DSA-2590-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1

Affected Products

Suse

Wireshark

References · 284

• 🔥 http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-rtps2.c?r1=44320&r2=44319&pathrev=44320 · Exploit
• https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15514562 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2590 · Vendor Advisory
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-4296 · Vendor Advisory
• http://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-18.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00033.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-4296 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-4296 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-4296 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4296 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4296 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-4296 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-6243 · Note