Bug 848544 (CVE-2012-4287) - CVE-2012-4287 wireshark: DoS via excessive CPU consumption in MongoDB dissector (wnpa-sec-2012-14)
Summary: CVE-2012-4287 wireshark: DoS via excessive CPU consumption in MongoDB dissect...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-4287
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 848589
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-08-15 20:54 UTC by Vincent Danen
Modified: 2021-02-23 14:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-04-24 17:42:25 UTC
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Description Vincent Danen 2012-08-15 20:54:40 UTC
It may be possible to make Wireshark consume excessive CPU resources by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.

Affects 1.8.0 to 1.8.1 and is fixed in upstream 1.8.2 version.

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-14.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7572
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=44288

Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2012-08-15 21:32:01 UTC
Sorry, this issue only affects rawhide/Fedora 18 which currently provides 1.8.1; earlier versions of Fedora provide 1.6.x.

Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2012-08-15 22:05:02 UTC
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-rawhide [bug 848589]

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2012-09-17 22:53:09 UTC
wireshark-1.8.2-1.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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