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CVE-2012-0066

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-0066 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Wireshark versions 1.4.x before 1.4.11 and 1.6.x before 1.6.5, affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Wireshark installations. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash the application by providing an excessively long packet within specific capture file formats (Accellent 5Views, I4B trace, or NETMON 2). Rated with a CVSS score of 4.3, it has a network attack vector, medium attack complexity, and a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.6.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.20%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0320 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.0.15-5.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.2.15-2.el6_2.1
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: wireshark

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-0066Low

Wireshark: Dos via large buffer allocation request

Jan 10, 2012

References

anonsvn.wireshark.org / viewvc
Patch
anonsvn.wireshark.org / viewvc
Patch
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0125.html
bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
Exploit
bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
Exploit
bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
Exploit
secunia.com / advisories/47494
secunia.com / advisories/48947
secunia.com / advisories/54425
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15111
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/01/11/7
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/01/20/4
Patch
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2012-01.html
Vendor Advisory