EIP-2026-116569

PRE-CVE

Wireshark 1.12.7 - Division by Zero Crash (PoC)

Title source: legacy
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for EIP-2026-116569. PoCs published by spyk.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit creates a malformed Wireshark recent settings file with a division by zero trigger in the column.width parameter, causing a DoS when Wireshark reads the file. It kills any running Wireshark process and writes the malicious configuration to the user's AppData directory.

Description

Wireshark 1.12.7 - Division by Zero Crash (PoC)

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED
by spyk · pythondoswindows
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38240

This exploit creates a malformed Wireshark recent settings file with a division by zero trigger in the column.width parameter, causing a DoS when Wireshark reads the file. It kills any running Wireshark process and writes the malicious configuration to the user's AppData directory.

Classification
Working Poc 95%
Attack Type
Dos
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: Wireshark 1.12.7
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Wireshark 1.12.7 installed on Windows · Write access to Wireshark's recent settings file
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 18, 2026 Full analysis →

Details

Status pre_cve
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026