CVE-2016-7958 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

In Wireshark 2.2.0, the NCP dissector could crash, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/CMakeLists.txt by registering this dissector.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00394.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Wireshark Subscribe	Wireshark Subscribe

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2016-8806	In Wireshark 2.2.0, the NCP dissector could crash, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/CMakeLists.txt by registering this dissector.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93463
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12945
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=67597cb2457fb843fa97d3f2c87b82dad6f0de07
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7958
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7958
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-57.html

History

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Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-04-12T10:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T02:13:21.454Z

Reserved: 2016-09-09T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-7958

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-04-12T10:59:00.307

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2016-7958

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-7958 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-20

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