CVE-2016-7958

high

Description

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.

References

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-57.html

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=67597cb2457fb843fa97d3f2c87b82dad6f0de07

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12945

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93463

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-04-12

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High