CVE-2016-4078: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 1.12.0 only; version 1.12.1 only; version 1.12.2 only; version 1.12.3 only; version 1.12.4 only; version 1.12.5 only; …

Published 2016-04-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.