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.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-5421 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T00:32:24.513Z

Reserved: 2016-04-30T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-4421

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-05-01T01:59:07.830

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-4421

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-02-26T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-4421 - Bugzilla

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