CVE-2012-4287

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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2012-08-16

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-399

Affected products

• Sunos (Sun)
• Wireshark (Wireshark)

References

• http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-mongo.c?r1=44288&r2=44287&pathrev=44288
• http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=44288
• http://secunia.com/advisories/50276
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51363
• http://secunia.com/advisories/54425
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55035
• http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-14.html
• https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_wireshark3
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7572
• https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15514562
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15818