CVE-2016-4078

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    CVE-2016-4078

    Published: 25 Apr 2016Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035685, https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e2745d741ec11f395d41c0aafa24df9dec136399, http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-21.html, https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11824, https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12187

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 4fab41a1f0e14e9124ea6a61e7bae42e95599495
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.12.0
    1.12.1
    1.12.10
    1.12.2
    1.12.3
    1.12.4
    1.12.5
    1.12.6
    1.12.7
    1.12.8
    1.12.9

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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