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CVE-2012-4288

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-4288 describes an integer overflow vulnerability in the XTP dissector of Wireshark versions 1.4.x, 1.6.x, and 1.8.x, affecting various openSUSE and SunOS distributions. This flaw, categorized as CWE-189, allows a remote attacker to trigger a denial of service (application crash or infinite loop) by sending a specially crafted packet with a large span length. With a CVSS score of 3.3, it has a low severity, requiring adjacent network access and no authentication. 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
11.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:11.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

3.3LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
6.5
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.94%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0194 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 94 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.8.10-4.el6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-4288Low

wireshark: DoS via excessive resource consumption in XTP dissector (wnpa-sec-2012-15)

Aug 15, 2012

References

anonsvn.wireshark.org / viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-xtp.c
Patch
anonsvn.wireshark.org / viewvc
Patch
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00033.html
blogs.oracle.com / sunsecurity/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_wireshark3
bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
Exploit
secunia.com / advisories/50276
secunia.com / advisories/51363
secunia.com / advisories/54425
hermes.opensuse.org / messages/15514562
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15789
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml
securityfocus.com / bid/55035
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2012-15.html
Vendor Advisory