CVE-2016-7958
high
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4 NEW
—
VIR risk
7.5
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
—
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 2.2.1+ga6fbd27-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 2.2.1+ga6fbd27-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 2.2.1+ga6fbd27-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 2.2.1+ga6fbd27-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 2.2.1+ga6fbd27-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| wireshark | wireshark | 2.2.0 | |
References
- 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://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-57.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-7958
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.