| Name | CVE-2016-7958 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| NVD severity | medium |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| wireshark (PTS) | jessie | 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u14 | fixed |
| jessie (security) | 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u19 | fixed | |
| stretch (security), stretch | 2.6.7-1~deb9u1 | fixed | |
| buster | 2.6.8-1.1 | fixed | |
| bullseye, sid | 3.2.1-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wireshark | source | (unstable) | 2.2.1+ga6fbd27-1 | |||
| wireshark | source | jessie | (not affected) | |||
| wireshark | source | wheezy | (not affected) |
[jessie] - wireshark <not-affected> (Introduced with "Add checkAPI calls to CMake")
[wheezy] - wireshark <not-affected> (Introduced with "Add checkAPI calls to CMake")
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12945
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=67597cb2457fb843fa97d3f2c87b82dad6f0de07
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-57.html