CVE-2012-0066: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.11 and 1.6.x before 1.6.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long packet in a (1) Accellent 5Views (aka .5vw) file, (2) I4B trace file, or (3) NETMON 2 capture file.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 5 only
• Wireshark Wireshark: version 1.6.0 only; version 1.6.1 only; version 1.6.2 only; version 1.6.3 only; version 1.6.4 only; version 1.4.0 only; …

Published 2012-04-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.