CVE-2012-4287: Sun Sunos

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Sun Sunos: version 5.11 only
• Wireshark Wireshark: version 1.8.0 only; version 1.8.1 only

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