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CVE-2016-4078

Published: Apr 25, 2016

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

vdb-entry

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https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12187

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http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html

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https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11824

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https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e2745d741ec11f395d41c0aafa24df9dec136399

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http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-21.html

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