Vulnerability in Sun Sunos
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.024 (83.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 84th percentile — 83.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.024 · newest: 0.024 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/55035 (vdb-entry)
- www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-14.html (Vendor Advisory)
- anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-mongo.c (Exploit, Patch)
- secunia.com/advisories/54425 (third-party-advisory)
- anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc
- blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_wireshark3
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/51363 (third-party-advisory)
- bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi (Exploit)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15818 (signature, vdb-entry)