CVE-2016-4006

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4006
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4006.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-4006
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-04-25T10:59:00.117Z
Modified
2026-02-12T07:16:30.017356Z
Severity
  • 5.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

epan/proto.c in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.11 and 2.0.x before 2.0.3 does not limit the protocol-tree depth, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack memory consumption and application crash) via a crafted packet.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/wireshark/wireshark

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
fb049efe68e97984e4438f29679d7a243afc4954

Affected versions

Other
backups/ethereal@18706
ethereal-0-3-15
start
ethereal-0.*
ethereal-0.3.15
v1.*
v1.11.0
v1.11.0-rc1
v1.11.1
v1.11.1-rc1
v1.11.2
v1.11.2-rc1
v1.11.3
v1.11.3-rc1
v1.11.4-rc1
v1.12.0
v1.12.0-rc1
v1.12.0-rc2
v1.12.0rc0
v1.12.0rc3
v1.12.1
v1.12.10
v1.12.10rc0
v1.12.11
v1.12.11rc0
v1.12.12
v1.12.12rc0
v1.12.13
v1.12.13rc0
v1.12.14rc0
v1.12.2
v1.12.2rc0
v1.12.3
v1.12.3rc0
v1.12.4
v1.12.4rc0
v1.12.5
v1.12.5rc0
v1.12.6
v1.12.6rc0
v1.12.7
v1.12.7rc0
v1.12.8
v1.12.8rc0
v1.12.9
v1.12.9rc0
wireshark-1.*
wireshark-1.11.3
wireshark-1.12.0
wireshark-1.12.1
wireshark-1.12.10
wireshark-1.12.11
wireshark-1.12.12
wireshark-1.12.13
wireshark-1.12.2
wireshark-1.12.3
wireshark-1.12.4
wireshark-1.12.5
wireshark-1.12.6
wireshark-1.12.7
wireshark-1.12.8
wireshark-1.12.9

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4006.json"