CVE-2012-4296
N/A
Published: August 16, 2012 at 10:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:44 PM UTC
3 products affected across 3 vendorsopenSUSEWiresharkSunos
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
Description
Buffer overflow in epan/dissectors/packet-rtps2.c in the RTPS2 dissector in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.15, 1.6.x before 1.6.10, and 1.8.x before 1.8.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a malformed packet.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-rtps2.c?r1=44320&r2=44319&pathrev=44320
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00033.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2590
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-18.html
References (14)
x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-rtps2.c?r1=44320&r2=44319&pathrev=44320x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=44320Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00033.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2590Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-399
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