CVE-2016-4006

Description

epan/proto.c in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.11 and 2.0.x before 2.0.3 does not limit the protocol-tree depth, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack memory consumption and application crash) via a crafted packet.

References

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8dc9551e1d56290e6f7f02cc38b77e1d211fd4a5

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12268

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-25.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035685

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3585

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3