CVE-2012-4298
Published: 16 August 2012
Integer signedness error in the vwr_read_rec_data_ethernet function in wiretap/vwr.c in the Ixia IxVeriWave file parser in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.2 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted packet-trace file that triggers a buffer overflow.
Priority
References
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7533
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-25.html
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?revision=44075&view=revision
- http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/wiretap/vwr.c?r1=44075&r2=44074&pathrev=44075
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-4298
- NVD
- Launchpad
- Debian