Unbounded Protocol-Tree Depth Vulnerability in Wireshark

CVE-2016-4006 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

epan/proto.c in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.11 and 2.0.x before 2.0.3 does not limit the protocol-tree depth, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack memory consumption and application crash) via a crafted packet.

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