CVE-2012-4296: Opensuse

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in epan/dissectors/packet-rtps2.c in the RTPS2 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 (CPU consumption) via a malformed packet.

Affected products

• Opensuse Opensuse: version 11.4 only; version 12.1 only
• Sun Sunos: version 5.11 only
• Wireshark Wireshark: version 1.6.0 only; version 1.6.1 only; version 1.6.2 only; version 1.6.3 only; version 1.6.4 only; version 1.6.5 only; …

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