CVE-2012-4049 Information

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.

Reference

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/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A15707