Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wireshark EtherCAT Plugin
CVE-2012-4293

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Oracle
Status
Sunos
Opensuse
Vendor
CVE Published:
16 August 2012

Summary

A vulnerability exists in the EtherCAT Mailbox dissector of Wireshark, where certain integer fields are not handled properly. This oversight may allow remote attackers to trigger a denial of service condition, potentially causing the application to exit unexpectedly when processing malformed packets. It is crucial for users of the affected Wireshark versions to apply the necessary updates to mitigate this risk.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55035
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https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7562
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http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revisio...
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Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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