CVE-2016-4078

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-04-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

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.

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 1.12.0, 1.12.1, 1.12.2, 1.12.3, 1.12.4, 1.12.5 (+8)

References

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%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e2745d741ec11f395d41c0aafa24df9dec136399
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%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e2745d741ec11f395d41c0aafa24df9dec136399

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