Medium
Security advisory
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.
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- Affected versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-4085
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:44 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2016-4085
Complete source record
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