Resource management error in Wireshark - CVE-2012-1595

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Resource management error in Wireshark - CVE-2012-1595

Published: April 11, 2012 / Updated: July 28, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU32810
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-1595
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Wireshark.org
Affected software:
Wireshark

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.

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.


How to mitigate CVE-2012-1595

Install update from vendor's website.

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