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CVE-2016-7958

Date: April 12, 2017

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.

Severity Score

7.5

Related Resources (9)

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

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

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-7958

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

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-7958

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

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7958

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7958

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-7958

Severity Score

7.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Input Validation

CWE-20

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.5
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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