Wireshark · Wireshark · CVE-2016-4006
**Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions**
Wireshark versions 1.12.x through 1.12.10
Wireshark versions 2.0.x through 2.0.2
**Description**
The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in stack memory consumption and application crash, via a crafted packet. This is due to the lack of limitation on the protocol-tree depth in the epan/proto.c file.
**Recommendations**
For Wireshark versions 1.12.x through 1.12.10, update to version 1.12.11 or later.
For Wireshark versions 2.0.x through 2.0.2, update to version 2.0.3 or later.