CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-6058
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-12-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189
Description
Integer overflow in the dissect_icmpv6 function in epan/dissectors/packet-icmpv6.c in the ICMPv6 dissector in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.12 and 1.8.x before 1.8.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted Number of Sources value.
Affected configurations
• wireshark wireshark 1.6.0
• wireshark wireshark 1.6.1
• wireshark wireshark 1.6.2
• wireshark wireshark 1.6.3
• wireshark wireshark 1.6.4
• wireshark wireshark 1.6.5
• wireshark wireshark 1.6.6
• wireshark wireshark 1.6.7
• wireshark wireshark 1.6.8
• wireshark wireshark 1.6.9
• wireshark wireshark 1.6.10
• wireshark wireshark 1.6.11
• wireshark wireshark 1.8.0
• wireshark wireshark 1.8.1
• wireshark wireshark 1.8.2
• wireshark wireshark 1.8.3
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-icmpv6.c?r1=45459&r2=45458&pathrev=45459 Exploit
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=45459 anonsvn.wireshark.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-12/msg00022.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00042.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-40.html Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7844 Exploit
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16075 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-icmpv6.c?r1=45459&r2=45458&pathrev=45459 Exploit
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=45459 anonsvn.wireshark.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-12/msg00022.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00042.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-40.html Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7844 Exploit
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16075 oval.cisecurity.org