CVE-2012-3548: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The dissect_drda function in epan/dissectors/packet-drda.c in Wireshark 1.6.x through 1.6.10 and 1.8.x through 1.8.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a small value for a certain length field in a capture file.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 1.8.0 only; version 1.8.1 only; version 1.8.2 only; version 1.6.0 only; version 1.6.1 only; version 1.6.2 only; …

Published 2012-08-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.