CVE-2016-4085: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Oracle Solaris: version 11.3 only
• Wireshark Wireshark: version 1.12.0 only; version 1.12.1 only; version 1.12.2 only; version 1.12.3 only; version 1.12.4 only; version 1.12.5 only; …

Published 2016-04-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.