CVE-2016-4006 (GCVE-0-2016-4006)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-04-25 10:00
Modified
2024-08-06 00:17
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
epan/proto.c in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.11 and 2.0.x before 2.0.3 does not limit the protocol-tree depth, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack memory consumption and application crash) via a crafted packet.
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