CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-4286
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-08-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189
Description
The pcapng_read_packet_block function in wiretap/pcapng.c in the pcap-ng file parser in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.2 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash) via a crafted pcap-ng file.
Affected configurations
• sun sunos 5.11
• wireshark wireshark 1.8.0
• wireshark wireshark 1.8.1
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/wiretap/pcapng.c?r1=44074&r2=44073&pathrev=44074 Patch
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?revision=44074&view=revision Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50276 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51363 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54425 secunia.com
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml www.gentoo.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55035 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-24.html Vendor Advisory
- https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_wireshark3 blogs.oracle.com
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7533 Exploit
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15514562 hermes.opensuse.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15693 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/wiretap/pcapng.c?r1=44074&r2=44073&pathrev=44074 Patch
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?revision=44074&view=revision Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50276 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51363 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54425 secunia.com
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml www.gentoo.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55035 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-24.html Vendor Advisory
- https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_wireshark3 blogs.oracle.com
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7533 Exploit
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15514562 hermes.opensuse.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15693 oval.cisecurity.org