CVE-2012-2394 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Wireshark versions 1.4.x before 1.4.13 and 1.6.x before 1.6.8, specifically on SPARC and Itanium platforms. The flaw stems from improper data alignment for a structure member, allowing remote attackers to crash the application by sending specially crafted ICMP or ICMPv6 Echo Request packets. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 3.3, indicating low severity with an adjacent network attack vector and low attack complexity, resulting in a partial availability impact. While not actively exploited in the wild and not on the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists (EDB-18920), though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:itanium:* | ||
1.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:sparc:* | ||
1.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:itanium:* | ||
1.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:sparc:* | ||
1.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:itanium:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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