CVE-2012-4298

Severity

54%

Complexity

55%

Confidentiality

106%

Integer signedness error in the vwr_read_rec_data_ethernet function in wiretap/vwr.c in the Ixia IxVeriWave file parser in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.2 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted packet-trace file that triggers a buffer overflow.

Integer signedness error in the vwr_read_rec_data_ethernet function in wiretap/vwr.c in the Ixia IxVeriWave file parser in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.2 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted packet-trace file that triggers a buffer overflow.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5.4. CVSS Attack Vector: adjacent_network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 12 years ago

2012-08-16 10:38:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-09-19 01:35:00

Affected Software

Sun SunOS (Solaris 11) 5.11

5.11

Wireshark 1.8.0

1.8.0

Wireshark 1.8.1

1.8.1

References

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/wiretap/vwr.c?r1=44075&r2=44074&pathrev=44075

Exploit, Patch

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?revision=44075&view=revision

50276

51363

54425

GLSA-201308-05

55035

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-25.html

Vendor Advisory

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

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7533

openSUSE-SU-2012:1067

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15777

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