VDB
CVE-2016-4078
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% · 58.3th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
0.36%
58.3th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:18.04:LTS | wireshark | 0, 2.4.5-1, 2.4.4-1 |
| Ubuntu:16.04:LTS | wireshark | *, 0, 1.12.7+g7fc8978-1 |
| Ubuntu:14.04:LTS | wireshark | 1.10.2-1, 0, * |
Exploit Intelligence
- 1035685 (circl)
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12187 (circl)
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html (circl)
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11824 (circl)
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e2745d741ec11f395d41c0aafa24df9dec136399 (circl)
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-21.html (circl)
Timeline
- Apr 25, 2016 CVE Published
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 20, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 12, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 3, 2022 EPSS Score
- Dec 18, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 8, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Apr 2, 2023 EPSS Score
- May 25, 2023 EPSS Score
- Jul 16, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-4078 third-party-advisory
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=e2745d741ec11f395d41c0aafa24df9dec136399 third-party-advisory
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12187 third-party-advisory
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11824 third-party-advisory
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-21.html third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4078 third-party-advisory