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CVE-2016-4421

Published: May 1, 2016

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

epan/dissectors/packet-ber.c in the ASN.1 BER dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.10 and 2.x before 2.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (deep recursion, stack consumption, and application crash) via a packet that specifies deeply nested data.

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

References

openSUSE-SU-2016:0661

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

openSUSE-SU-2016:0660

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-18.html

x_refsource_CONFIRM

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

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11822

x_refsource_CONFIRM

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