DEBIAN-CVE-2016-4078

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-4078 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.900000095367432 MEDIUM

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.0

5.900000095367432

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Debian:13	wireshark	0, 0, 0
Debian:11	wireshark	0, 0, 0
Debian:12	wireshark	0, 0, 0
Debian:14	wireshark	0, 0, 0

Timeline

Apr 25, 2016 CVE Published
Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4078 advisory

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