CVE-2012-6057 Information

Description

The dissect_eigrp_metric_comm function in epan/dissectors/packet-eigrp.c in the EIGRP dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.4 uses the wrong data type for a certain offset value which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and infinite loop) via a malformed packet.

Reference

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-eigrp.c?r1=45408&r2=45407&pathrev=45408 http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=45408 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-12/msg00022.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00042.html http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-34.html https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7800 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A15883