VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-4078

medium
Published 2016-04-25 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
5.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.9

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
69%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed2.0.3+geed34f0-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.0.3+geed34f0-1
debian debianforkyfixed2.0.3+geed34f0-1
debian debiansidfixed2.0.3+geed34f0-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.0.3+geed34f0-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
wiresharkwireshark1.12.0
wiresharkwireshark1.12.1
wiresharkwireshark1.12.2
wiresharkwireshark1.12.3
wiresharkwireshark1.12.4
wiresharkwireshark1.12.5
wiresharkwireshark1.12.6
wiresharkwireshark1.12.7
wiresharkwireshark1.12.8
wiresharkwireshark1.12.9
wiresharkwireshark1.12.10
wiresharkwireshark2.0.0
wiresharkwireshark2.0.1
wiresharkwireshark2.0.2

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.