CVE-2012-1596: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The mp2t_process_fragmented_payload function in epan/dissectors/packet-mp2t.c in the MP2T dissector in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.12 and 1.6.x before 1.6.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a packet containing an invalid pointer value that triggers an incorrect memory-allocation attempt.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 1.4.0 only; version 1.4.1 only; version 1.4.2 only; version 1.4.3 only; version 1.4.4 only; version 1.4.5 only; …

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