CVE-2012-2394
Status: ModifiedLow (3.3)—💥 Exploit
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.
CVSS
- Version: 2.0
- Vector: AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Base score: 3.3
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 3.98%
- Percentile among all scored CVEs: 90
- Score date: 10/9/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
💥 Public exploits
Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.
- Published on Exploit-DB · Wireshark - Misaligned Memory Denial of Service (5/24/2012)
Affected technologies (1)
CWEs
- CWE-119
References
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=42393
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49226
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:015
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:042
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:080
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53653
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027094
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-10.html
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7221
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=42393
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49226
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:015
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:042
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:080
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53653
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027094
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-10.html
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7221
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