CVE-2012-4049

Severity: low (CVSS 2.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-07-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

epan/dissectors/packet-nfs.c in the NFS dissector in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.14, 1.6.x before 1.6.9, and 1.8.x before 1.8.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (loop and CPU consumption) via a crafted packet.

Affected products

Opensuse: 11.4, 12.1
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.4.4, 1.4.5 (+18)

References

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-nfs.c?r1=43576&r2=43575&pathrev=43576
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=43576
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/49971
http://secunia.com/advisories/54425
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-12.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7436
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15707
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-nfs.c?r1=43576&r2=43575&pathrev=43576
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=43576
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00000.html

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