CVE-2012-2394: wireshark

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2012-2394 is a low (CVSS 3.3) vulnerability in wireshark. EPSS estimates a 3.98% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90.3% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 30-06-2012
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.13 and 1.6.x before 1.6.8 on the SPARC and Itanium platforms does not properly perform data alignment for a certain structure member, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a (1) ICMP or (2) ICMPv6 Echo Request packet.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.