CVE-2016-4078
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5.9 · Improper input validation
5.9CVSS MEDIUM
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityHigh
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-21.htmlAdvisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035685
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11824
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12187
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e2745d741ec11f395d41c0aafa24df9dec136399