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DEBIAN-CVE-2016-4078

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 atta...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 wireshark

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.0.3+geed34f0-1"}]}]

Debian:13 wireshark

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.0.3+geed34f0-1"}]}]

Debian:14 wireshark

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.0.3+geed34f0-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org