CVE-2012-4289: Opensuse

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 Opensuse: version 11.4 only; version 12.1 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 5 only
• Sun Sunos: version 5.11 only
• Wireshark Wireshark: version 1.8.0 only; version 1.8.1 only; version 1.6.0 only; version 1.6.1 only; version 1.6.2 only; version 1.6.3 only; …

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