CVE-2012-2394

Description

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.

References

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7221

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-10.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027094

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53653

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:080

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:042

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:015

http://secunia.com/advisories/49226

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=42393

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3