CVE-2016-4421

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2016-02-26
Bugzilla:
1312801: CVE-2016-4421 wireshark: ASN.1 BER dissector crash. (wnpa-sec-2016-18)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2016-4421 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 wireshark Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 wireshark Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 wireshark Will not fix

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