National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-1595
Original release date:04/11/2012
Last revised:01/04/2013
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The pcap_process_pseudo_header function in wiretap/pcap-common.c in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.12 and 1.6.x before 1.6.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a WTAP_ENCAP_ERF file containing an Extension or Multi-Channel header with an invalid pseudoheader size, related to the pcap and pcap-ng file parsers.
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: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6804
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-06.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20120328 Re: CVE Request: Multiple wireshark security flaws resolved in 1.4.12 and 1.6.6
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 48986
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 48947
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15548
External Source: SUSE
Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:0558
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=41008
Technical Details
- Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)