PT-2012-6245 · Wireshark · Wireshark

Published 2012-12-05 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2012-6055

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

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

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an infinite loop. This occurs when a zero value is present in a sub-type length field.

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

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-189

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-6055

DLA-497-1

Affected Products

Wireshark

References · 14

• 🔥 http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-3g-a11.c?r1=45337&r2=45336&pathrev=45337 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=45337 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7801 · Exploit
• http://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-39.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6055 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-6055 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-6055 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00042.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-6055 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-6055 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-12/msg00022.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-6055 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6055 · Vendor Advisory
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16044 · Note