Upstream information

CVE-2016-4421 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database SUSE
Base Score 4.3 4.3
Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network Network
Access Complexity Medium Medium
Authentication None None
Confidentiality Impact None None
Integrity Impact None None
Availability Impact Partial Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5.9
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 977983 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

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Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification.

Product(s) Source package State
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 wireshark Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 GA wireshark Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1 wireshark Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise SDK 11 SP4 wireshark Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise SDK 12 GA wireshark Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise SDK 12 SP1 wireshark Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 LTSS wireshark Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 LTSS wireshark Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS wireshark Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 wireshark Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 GA wireshark Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 wireshark Already fixed