CVE-2016-4416

epan/dissectors/packet-ieee80211.c in the IEEE 802.11 dissector in Wireshark 2.x before 2.0.2 mishandles the Grouping subfield, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted packet.

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.9 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2016-05-01

Last modified

2024-09-16

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Wireshark (Wireshark)

References

• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11818
• https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-13.html