CVE-2016-4078 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 0.36% · 57.7th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
0.36%
57.7th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:18.04:LTSwireshark0, 2.4.5-1, 2.4.4-1
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSwireshark1.12.8+g5b6e543-2, 0, 1.12.7+g7fc8978-1
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSwireshark1.10.3-1, 1.10.2-1, 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u11ubuntu0.14.04.1

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