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CVE-2012-2394 json

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 cert…

published 2012-06-30 14 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2012-2382

cvss
3.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.9%
EPSS 3.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • wireshark Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.6.8-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2012-2394

  • wireshark openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.2.2-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2012-2394 updated cvss 4.3

wireshark: Denial of service (crash) due memory alignment problem on SPARC and Itanium processors (wnpa-sec-2012-10)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 wireshark Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 wireshark, wireshark-gnome
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-18920)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

3.88% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-18920 Wireshark - Misaligned Memory Denial of Service dos, 2012-05-24

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 3.3 AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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