PT-2012-5850 · Wireshark · Wireshark

Laurent Butti · Published 2012-10-04 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2012-5240

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wireshark versions 1.8.x through 1.8.2

Description The issue is related to a buffer overflow in the dissect tlv function in the LDP dissector. This can be exploited by remote attackers via a malformed packet, potentially causing a denial of service or other unspecified impacts.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 1.8.x through 1.8.2, update to version 1.8.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-5240

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1

Affected Products

Wireshark

References · 278

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5240 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-5240 · Vendor Advisory
• http://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-29.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-5240 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-5240 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5240 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-5240 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-5240 · 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
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-1140 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4298 · Note