CVE-2016-4078

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 Medium 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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2016-4078
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2016-04-25T10:59:03
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2016-12-03T03:27:29
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-20 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.12.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.12.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.12.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.12.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.12.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.12.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.12.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.12.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.12.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.12.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.12.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 4.3
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • HIGH
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 5.9
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2.2
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=e2745d741ec11f395d41c0aafa24df9dec136399
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11824
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12187
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-21.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035685
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4078
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4078
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 10:01:00 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 09:11:57 2016-04-25T10:59Z 2016-04-25T10:59:03 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 09:11:57 2016-12-03T03:27:29 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 09:11:57 Modified Vulnerability Status updated