CVE-2012-4287 — Wireshark vulnerability

CWE-3998 documents7 sources
Severity
5.0MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
2.9%
top 13.73%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
WiresharkSUN Sunos
Timeline
PublishedAug 16
Latest updateMay 17

Description

epan/dissectors/packet-mongo.c in the MongoDB dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (loop and CPU consumption) via a small value for a BSON document length.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:N/I:N/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶Debianwireshark/wireshark< 1.8.2-1+3
▶NVDwireshark/wireshark1.8.0, 1.8.1+1
▶NVDsun/sunos5.11

Patches

Patch: anonsvn.wireshark.org ↗Patch: anonsvn.wireshark.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-wrxh-w5jf-pm6p: epan/dissectors/packet-mongo↗2022-05-17
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CVEList
CVE-2012-4287: epan/dissectors/packet-mongo↗2012-08-16
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OSV
CVE-2012-4287: epan/dissectors/packet-mongo↗2012-08-16
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
wireshark: DoS via excessive CPU consumption in MongoDB dissector (wnpa-sec-2012-14)↗2012-08-15
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Debian
CVE-2012-4287: wireshark - epan/dissectors/packet-mongo.c in the MongoDB dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x befor...↗2012
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2012-4287 wireshark: DoS via excessive CPU consumption in MongoDB dissector (wnpa-sec-2012-14)↗2012-08-15
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Bugzilla
CVE-2012-4294 CVE-2012-4295 CVE-2012-4286 CVE-2012-4298 CVE-2012-4287 wireshark various flaws [fedora-rawhide]↗2012-08-15
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