PT-2016-5840 · Wireshark+1 · Wireshark+1

Mateusz Jurczyk · Published 2016-04-25 · Updated 2016-12-03 · CVE-2016-4078

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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 deep recursion and application crash, via a crafted packet. This is related to the IEEE 802.11 dissector in Wireshark, specifically affecting files epan/dissectors/packet-capwap.c and epan/dissectors/packet-ieee80211.c.

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.

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1528

CVE-2016-4078

MGASA-2016-0153

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Wireshark

References · 42

• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0153.html · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4078 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4006 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-4078 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2016-1528 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4082 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4081 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4078 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4076 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4079 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4078 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-4078 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-4078 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4078 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4078 · Security Note