PT-2012-6243 · Wireshark · Wireshark

Published 2012-12-05 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2012-6052

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wireshark versions 1.8.x through 1.8.3

Description The issue allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive hostname information by reading pcap-ng files.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 1.8.x through 1.8.3, update to version 1.8.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-6052

DLA-497-1

Affected Products

Wireshark

References · 11

• http://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-30.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-6052 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-6052 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00042.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6052 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-6052 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-12/msg00022.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-6052 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6052 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-6052 · Vendor Advisory
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16040 · Note