Resource Management Errors Affecting wireshark package, versions [,1.4.15)[1.6.0,1.6.10)[1.8.0,1.8.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.59% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WIRESHARK-2318086
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed16 Aug 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Aug 2012

CVE-2012-4296  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wireshark to version 1.4.15, 1.6.10, 1.8.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. 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.

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