CVE-2016-4078 (GCVE-0-2016-4078)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-04-25 10:00
Modified
2024-08-06 00:17
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
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.
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