PT-2012-6251 · Wireshark+2 · Wireshark+2

Published 2012-12-05 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2012-6062

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 1.6.x through 1.6.11 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, via a crafted packet. This is due to a problem in the dissect rtcp app function in the RTCP dissector.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 1.6.x through 1.6.11, update to version 1.6.12 or later. For Wireshark versions 1.8.x through 1.8.3, update to version 1.8.4 or later.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CESA-2013_1569

CVE-2012-6062

DLA-497-1

RHSA-2013:1569

RHSA-2013_1569

RHSA-2014:0341

RHSA-2014_0341

Affected Products

Centos

Red Hat

Wireshark

References · 101

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/fileformat/wireshark_mpeg_overflow.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7879 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-rtcp.c?r1=45717&r2=45716&pathrev=45717 · Exploit
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5597 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-5721 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4081 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4289 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4936 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-6062 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-6062 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2392 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-6062 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-12/msg00022.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5600 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4291 · Security Note