CVE-2016-4078 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035685 http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-21.html 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;a=commit;h=e2745d741ec11f395d41c0aafa24df9dec136399

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.9