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CVE-2012-4290

Date: August 16, 2012

The CTDB 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 and CPU consumption) via a malformed packet.

Language: C

Severity Score

4.3

Related Resources (16)

Url: https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_wireshark3

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/54425

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/50276

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/51363

Url: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-23.html

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4290

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4290

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

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

Url: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7573

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55035

Url: https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15514562

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15619

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4290

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00033.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-4290

Severity Score

4.3

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	4.3
Attack Vector (AV):	ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	3.3
Access Vector (AV):	ADJACENT
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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