CVE-2012-5237

Severity

32%

Complexity

65%

Confidentiality

48%

The dissect_hsrp function in epan/dissectors/packet-hsrp.c in the HSRP dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a malformed packet.

The dissect_hsrp function in epan/dissectors/packet-hsrp.c in the HSRP dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) 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

Type

Wireshark

First reported 12 years ago

2012-10-04 19:55:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-09-19 01:35:00

Affected Software

Wireshark 1.8.0

1.8.0

Wireshark 1.8.1

1.8.1

Wireshark 1.8.2

1.8.2

References

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-hsrp.c?r1=44454&r2=44453&pathrev=44454

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=44454

Patch

85884

55754

1027604

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-26.html

Vendor Advisory

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7581

wireshark-hsrp-dos(79009)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14992

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