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CVE-2012-4292

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-4292 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Wireshark versions 1.4.x, 1.6.x, and 1.8.x, specifically within the STUN dissector's dissect_stun_message function. A malformed packet can cause the application to crash due to improper interaction with a key-destruction library. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 3.3, indicating a low impact of partial availability and requiring adjacent network access with low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

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

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
1.91%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0191 is in the 81st 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-2012-4292Low

wireshark: crash in STUN dissector (wnpa-sec-2012-21)

Aug 15, 2012

References

anonsvn.wireshark.org / viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-stun.c
Patch
anonsvn.wireshark.org / viewvc/trunk/epan/emem.c
Patch
anonsvn.wireshark.org / viewvc
Patch
anonsvn.wireshark.org / viewvc
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%3A15158
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml
securityfocus.com / bid/55035
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2012-21.html
Vendor Advisory