Candidate: CVE-2016-4078
PublicDate: 2016-04-25 10:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4078
 https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=e2745d741ec11f395d41c0aafa24df9dec136399
 https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12187
 https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11824
 http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-21.html
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.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H [5.9 MEDIUM]

Patches_wireshark:
upstream_wireshark: needs-triage
precise_wireshark: ignored (reached end-of-life)
precise/esm_wireshark: DNE (precise was needed)
trusty_wireshark: released (2.6.3-1~ubuntu14.04.1)
trusty/esm_wireshark: released (2.6.3-1~ubuntu14.04.1)

vivid/stable-phone-overlay_wireshark: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_wireshark: DNE
wily_wireshark: ignored (reached end-of-life)
xenial_wireshark: released (2.6.3-1~ubuntu16.04.1)

yakkety_wireshark: ignored (reached end-of-life)
zesty_wireshark: ignored (reached end-of-life)
artful_wireshark: ignored (reached end-of-life)
bionic_wireshark: released (2.6.3-1~ubuntu18.04.1)

devel_wireshark: not-affected (2.6.3-1)