CVE-2016-4421

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CVSS 3.0

5.9 medium

EPSS

1%p70

Published

May 1, 2016 (May 1, 2016)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Vendors: wireshark
Products: wireshark
Weakness: CWE-20
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.3%)

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