CVE-2012-4298

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-08-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer signedness error in the vwr_read_rec_data_ethernet function in wiretap/vwr.c in the Ixia IxVeriWave file parser in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.2 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted packet-trace file that triggers a buffer overflow.

Affected products

Sunos: 5.11
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 1.8.0, 1.8.1

References

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/wiretap/vwr.c?r1=44075&r2=44074&pathrev=44075
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?revision=44075&view=revision
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-2012-25.html
https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_wireshark3
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7533
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15514562
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15777

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