Denial of Service (DoS) 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
0.28% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WIRESHARK-2318282
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed16 Aug 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Aug 2012

CVE-2012-4288  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-189  (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 Denial of Service (DoS). Integer overflow in the dissect_xtp_ecntl function in epan/dissectors/packet-xtp.c in the XTP 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 (loop or application crash) via a large value for a span length.

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