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CVE-2012-2394

LOW severity · CVSS 3.3 · Memory corruption
3.3CVSS LOW

Summary

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.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorAdjacent
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)4%

AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=42393 ↗