CVE-2012-0067

N/A Unknown

Published: April 11, 2012 Modified: April 29, 2026

Description

wiretap/iptrace.c in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.11 and 1.6.x before 1.6.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long packet in an AIX iptrace file.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=40167

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Patch

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0125.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://secunia.com/advisories/47494

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://secunia.com/advisories/48947

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://secunia.com/advisories/54425

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/11/7

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/20/4

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-01.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Vendor Advisory

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6668

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Exploit Patch

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15192

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=40167