CVE-2016-4421

medium

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.

References

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-18.html

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11822

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

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00016.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00015.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-05-01

Updated: 2016-12-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium