Description
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.
Published: 2016-04-25
Score: 5.9 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-5079 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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T00:17:30.878Z

Reserved: 2016-04-24T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-4078

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-04-25T10:59:03.490

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2016-4078

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-04-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-4078 - Bugzilla

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