Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.13 and 1.6.x before 1.6.8 on the SPARC and Itanium platforms does not properly perform data alignment for a…

Description

Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.13 and 1.6.x before 1.6.8 on the SPARC and Itanium platforms does not properly perform data alignment for a certain structure member, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a (1) ICMP or (2) ICMPv6 Echo Request packet.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

3.9% · top 9.6% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• MDVSA-2012:015 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=42393 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 1027094 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• MDVSA-2012:042 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-10.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 49226 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7221 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• MDVSA-2012:080 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• 53653 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 19:34 UTC.