CVE-2016-4421

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: May 1, 2016
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Apr 30, 2016

Description

epan/dissectors/packet-ber.c in the ASN.1 BER dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.10 and 2.x before 2.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (deep recursion, stack consumption, and application crash) via a packet that specifies deeply nested data.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

openSUSE-SU-2016:0661vendor-advisory
openSUSE-SU-2016:0660vendor-advisory
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-18.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11822

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