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CVE-2016-4078

Date: April 25, 2016

The IEEE 802.11 dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.11 and 2.0.x before 2.0.3 does not properly restrict element lists, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (deep recursion and application crash) via a crafted packet, related to epan/dissectors/packet-capwap.c and epan/dissectors/packet-ieee80211.c.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (11)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035685
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12187
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4078
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4078
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4078
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11824
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-4078
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e2745d741ec11f395d41c0aafa24df9dec136399
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-21.html
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-4078

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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