CVE-2016-4078

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4078
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4078.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-4078
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-04-25T10:59:03.490Z
Modified
2026-03-18T11:14:14.484242Z
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

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.

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
4fab41a1f0e14e9124ea6a61e7bae42e95599495
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
01b65bf3a8e3d2f856471b0bb5a7e38dabf815f3
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
898fa22ad39718f1a7cb9976f61a4f85e4e72b05
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
bb3e9a0fc7c94f7bde5b62aedfee06f748c1d37f
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
b4861da48fa018a82f674161b7335c2e269d33ec
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
5819e5b13c0bbd224fde5a4c900ad8e22f09b4cc
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
ee1fce6fb32c55cf1af2fe1778f67eb77c0ff8d4
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
7fc8978399fe7fe20bac8f2ef5f2f15eef4c4698
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
5b6e543233efc5c8abfd8edd6fbf717f7ec3f632
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
fadb421970e5e2103ebd15ca1e5d19b89d20efa0
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
7f56a20e1e701216b3c31c3540022f604978b1e3
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
9a73b827b22c7ce9132e939b9f07ec4425fc2aa6
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
59ea380c69dca2bc2f97fa97c1bf410bbcd2411c
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
a16e22ed9cbbc599fe8b7b8e40a6696a0138c489
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.12.0"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.12.1"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.12.2"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.12.3"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.12.4"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.12.5"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.12.6"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.12.7"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.12.8"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.12.9"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.12.10"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.0"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.1"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.2"
        }
    ]
}

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
v1.12.0rc3
v1.99.0
v1.99.0-rc1
v1.99.1
v1.99.10rc0
v1.99.1rc0
v1.99.2
v1.99.2rc0
v1.99.3
v1.99.3rc0
v1.99.4
v1.99.4rc0
v1.99.5
v1.99.5rc0
v1.99.6
v1.99.6rc0
v1.99.7
v1.99.7rc0
v1.99.8
v1.99.8rc0
v1.99.9
v1.99.9rc0
v2.*
v2.0.0
v2.0.0rc0
v2.0.0rc1
v2.0.0rc2
v2.0.0rc3
wireshark-1.*
wireshark-1.11.3
wireshark-1.12.0
wireshark-1.99.0
wireshark-1.99.1
wireshark-1.99.2
wireshark-1.99.3
wireshark-1.99.4
wireshark-1.99.5
wireshark-1.99.6
wireshark-1.99.7
wireshark-1.99.8
wireshark-1.99.9
wireshark-2.*
wireshark-2.0.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4078.json"