CVE-2016-4085

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% 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-20

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in epan/dissectors/packet-ncp2222.inc in the NCP dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long string in a packet.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11.3
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 1.12.0, 1.12.1, 1.12.2, 1.12.3, 1.12.4, 1.12.5 (+8)

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3585
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/87467
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035685
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-28.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12293
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=99efcb0f5aeeb4b2179e88c7a4233022aaeecf0b
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3585
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/87467
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035685
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-28.html

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