Denial of service vulnerability in the NCP dissector in Wireshark by injecting a malformed packet - CVE-2016-7958| ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:38113 | Date: (C)2016-11-18 (M)2022-10-10 |
| Class: VULNERABILITY | Family: windows |
The host is installed with Wireshark 2.2.x before 2.2.1 and is prone to a denial of service vulnerability. A flaw is present in the application, which fails to properly handle NCP dissector. Successful exploitation allows attackers to crash the service by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.
| Platform: |
| Microsoft Windows 11 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2022 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2019 |
| Microsoft Windows Vista |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 |
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 |
| Microsoft Windows 8 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2016 |
| Microsoft Windows 7 |
| Microsoft Windows 10 |
