CVE-2012-4296

Severity

32%

Complexity

65%

Confidentiality

48%

Buffer overflow in epan/dissectors/packet-rtps2.c in the RTPS2 dissector in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.15, 1.6.x before 1.6.10, and 1.8.x before 1.8.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a malformed packet.

Buffer overflow in epan/dissectors/packet-rtps2.c in the RTPS2 dissector in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.15, 1.6.x before 1.6.10, and 1.8.x before 1.8.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a malformed packet.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 3.3. CVSS Attack Vector: adjacent_network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 12 years ago

2012-08-16 10:38:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:27:00

Affected Software

Wireshark 1.6.0

1.6.0

Wireshark 1.6.1

1.6.1

Wireshark 1.6.2

1.6.2

Wireshark 1.6.3

1.6.3

Wireshark 1.6.4

1.6.4

Wireshark 1.6.5

1.6.5

Wireshark 1.6.6

1.6.6

Wireshark 1.6.7

1.6.7

Wireshark 1.6.8

1.6.8

Wireshark 1.6.9

1.6.9

OpenSUSE 11.4

11.4

OpenSUSE 12.1

12.1

Sun SunOS (Solaris 11) 5.11

5.11

Wireshark 1.4.0

1.4.0

Wireshark 1.4.1

1.4.1

Wireshark 1.4.2

1.4.2

Wireshark 1.4.3

1.4.3

Wireshark 1.4.4

1.4.4

Wireshark 1.4.5

1.4.5

Wireshark 1.4.6

1.4.6

Wireshark 1.4.7

1.4.7

Wireshark 1.4.8

1.4.8

Wireshark 1.4.9

1.4.9

Wireshark 1.4.10

1.4.10

Wireshark 1.4.11

1.4.11

Wireshark 1.4.12

1.4.12

Wireshark 1.4.13

1.4.13

Wireshark 1.4.14

1.4.14

Wireshark 1.8.0

1.8.0

Wireshark 1.8.1

1.8.1

References

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-rtps2.c?r1=44320&r2=44319&pathrev=44320

Exploit, Patch

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=44320

openSUSE-SU-2012:1035

50276

51363

54425

DSA-2590

GLSA-201308-05

55035

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-18.html

Vendor Advisory

https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_wireshark3

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7568

openSUSE-SU-2012:1067

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15583

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