CVE-2016-4078

Published Apr 25, 2016

Last updated a year ago

Overview

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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 3.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 5.9
Impact score: 3.6
Exploitability score: 2.2
Vector string: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 4.3
Impact score: 2.9
Exploitability score: 8.6
Vector string: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-20

Configurations

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Overview

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Risk scores

CVSS 3.0

CVSS 2.0

Weaknesses

Configurations

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