PT-2012-5314 · Wireshark · Wireshark

Ben Schmidt · Published 2012-08-16 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2012-4287

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wireshark versions 1.8.0 through 1.8.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in loop and CPU consumption. This is achieved by providing a small value for a BSON document length in the MongoDB dissector.

Recommendations For Wireshark versions 1.8.0 through 1.8.1, update to version 1.8.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-4287

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1

Affected Products

Wireshark

References · 279

• 🔥 http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-mongo.c?r1=44288&r2=44287&pathrev=44288 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7572 · Exploit
• https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15514562 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4287 · Security Note
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-4287 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4287 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-4287 · Vendor Advisory
• http://wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-14.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10199-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-6243 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-6428 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-3558 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1576 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-1140 · Note