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CVE-2012-0068

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-0068 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Wireshark versions 1.4.x before 1.4.11 and 1.6.x before 1.6.5. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash the application by providing a malformed Novell capture file with an undersized record. Rated with a CVSS score of 4.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), it indicates a network-based attack with medium complexity, resulting in a partial denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.60%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0160 is in the 49th 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-0068Moderate

Wireshark: Heap-buffer underflow when parsing LANalyzer packet capture files

Jan 10, 2012

References

anonsvn.wireshark.org / viewvc
bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/47494
secunia.com / advisories/54425
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15379
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
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2012-01.html
Vendor Advisory