National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-2394

Overview

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

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=42393

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=42393

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7221

Hyperlink:https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7221

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-10.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-10.html

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1027094

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027094

External Source: BID

Name: 53653

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53653

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2012:080

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:080

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2012:042

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:042

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2012:015

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:015

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 49226

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/49226