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CVE-2016-4076

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-04-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-284

Description

epan/dissectors/packet-ncp2222.inc in the NCP dissector in Wireshark 2.0.x before 2.0.3 does not properly initialize memory for search patterns, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

Affected products

• Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2

References

• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035685
• http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-19.html
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11591
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ea8e6955fcff21333c203bc00f69d5025761459b
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035685
• http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-19.html
• https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11591
• https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ea8e6955fcff21333c203bc00f69d5025761459b

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