UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4078

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4078

    Published: 25 Apr 2016Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-4078

    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: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-4078, https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=e2745d741ec11f395d41c0aafa24df9dec136399, https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12187, https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11824, http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-21.html, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4078

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: wireshark

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~ubuntu14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.6.3-1~ubuntu14.04.1

    Affected versions

    1.10.2-1
    1.10.3-1
    1.10.5-1ubuntu1
    1.10.5-2
    1.10.6-1

    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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