vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-7958: wireshark -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 12, 2017
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-wireshark
Title
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