| Name | CVE-2016-4078 |
| Description | 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 | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| wireshark (PTS) | buster | 2.6.20-0+deb10u4 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 2.6.20-0+deb10u8 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 3.4.10-0+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 4.0.11-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie | 4.2.2-1 | fixed |
| sid | 4.2.4-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| wireshark | source | wheezy | (not affected) | | | |
| wireshark | source | jessie | (not affected) | | | |
| wireshark | source | (unstable) | 2.0.3+geed34f0-1 | low | | |
Notes
[jessie] - wireshark <not-affected> (vulnerable code not present)
[wheezy] - wireshark <not-affected> (vulnerable code not present)
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-21.html
Upstream lists 1.12.x affected, I have contacted them for clarification