CVE-2012-4293

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-08-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

plugins/ethercat/packet-ecatmb.c in the EtherCAT Mailbox 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 does not properly handle certain integer fields, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application exit) via a malformed packet.

Affected products

Opensuse: 11.4, 12.1
Sunos: 5.11
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 1.6.0, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 1.6.4, 1.6.5 (+21)

References

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/plugins/ethercat/packet-ecatmb.c?r1=43149&r2=43148&pathrev=43149
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=43149
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00033.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/50276
http://secunia.com/advisories/51363
http://secunia.com/advisories/54425
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55035
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-22.html
https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_wireshark3
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7562
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15514562

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