CVE-2012-4287

N/A Unknown

Published: August 16, 2012 Modified: April 29, 2026

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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-mongo.c?r1=44288&r2=44287&pathrev=44288

Source: cve@mitre.org

Exploit Patch

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=44288

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/50276

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/51363

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/54425

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55035

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-14.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_wireshark3

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7572

Source: cve@mitre.org

Exploit

https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15514562

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15818

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-mongo.c?r1=44288&r2=44287&pathrev=44288