CVE-2012-4292 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash Wireshark by sending a malformed STUN packet, causing a denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2012-4292?
CVE-2012-4292 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Opensuse Opensuse, published on 16 Aug 2012. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The dissect_stun_message function in epan/dissectors/packet-stun.c in the STUN dissector in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.15, 1.6.x before 1.6.10, and 1.8.x before 1.8.2 does not properly interact with key-destruction behavior in a certain tree library, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-4292?
It affects 3 products.
Products include Opensuse Opensuse, Sun Sunos, Wireshark Wireshark.
How do I fix CVE-2012-4292?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2012-4292 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-4292 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Opensuse Opensuse
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2012-4292, GHSA-r459-x2j5-rcvp.