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CVE-2016-4078 (GCVE-0-2016-4078)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-04-25 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:17
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Summary
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.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-04-22 00:00
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      "product_status:known_affected": "1",
      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2016-4078",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2016-4078.json",
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}



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