CVEs-PoC/2016/CVE-2016-4078.md

### [CVE-2016-4078](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4078)
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### Description

The IEEE 802.11 dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.11 and 2.0.x before 2.0.3 does not properly restrict element lists, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (deep recursion and application crash) via a crafted packet, related to epan/dissectors/packet-capwap.c and epan/dissectors/packet-ieee80211.c.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html

#### Github
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