PT-2012-6246 · Wireshark · Wireshark

Published 2012-12-05 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2012-6057

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 is related to the dissect eigrp metric comm function in the EIGRP dissector, which uses the wrong data type for a certain offset value. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed packet, resulting in an integer overflow and infinite loop.

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

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-189

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-6057

DLA-497-1

Affected Products

Wireshark

References · 14

• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-6057 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6057 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-6057 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00042.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-eigrp.c?r1=45408&r2=45407&pathrev=45408 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-6057 · Vendor Advisory
• http://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-34.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-6057 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6057 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-12/msg00022.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-6057 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7800 · Note
• http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=45408 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15883 · Note