CVE-2012-4289

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-08-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

epan/dissectors/packet-afp.c in the AFP dissector in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.15, 1.6.x before 1.6.10, and 1.8.x before 1.8.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (loop and CPU consumption) via a large number of ACL entries.

Affected products

Opensuse: 11.4, 12.1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 5
Sunos: 5.11
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 1.8.0, 1.8.1, 1.6.0, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.3 (+21)

References

http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-afp.c?r1=44317&r2=44316&pathrev=44317
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=44317
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00033.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0125.html
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-2012-17.html
https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_wireshark3
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7603

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