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CVE-2016-4421

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2016-03-01 wireshark -- multiple vulnerabilities

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2016-4421
Phase Assigned(20160430)

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

Source Reference
CONFIRM https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11822
CONFIRM https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-18.html