CVE-2012-4290: Opensuse

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The CTDB 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 malformed packet.

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 1.4.0 only; version 1.4.1 only; version 1.4.2 only; version 1.4.3 only; version 1.4.4 only; version 1.4.5 only; …

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