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CVE-2016-7958

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-04-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

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.

Affected products

• Wireshark Foundation 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
• 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

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