Buffer overflow in Wireshark

CVE-2012-2394

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.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.040 (89.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Wireshark — versions 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References