National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-0066
Original release date:04/11/2012
Last revised:02/07/2013
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.11 and 1.6.x before 1.6.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long packet in a (1) Accellent 5Views (aka .5vw) file, (2) I4B trace file, or (3) NETMON 2 capture file.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20120119 Re: CVE request: Wireshark multiple vulnerabilities
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=40166
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=40165
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6669
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6667
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6666
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-01.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20120111 Re: CVE request: Wireshark multiple vulnerabilities
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 48947
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2013:0125
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15111