CVE-2012-6057: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 1.8.0 only; version 1.8.1 only; version 1.8.2 only; version 1.8.3 only

Published 2012-12-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.