CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-6426
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-09-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
The dissect_hip_tlv function in epan/dissectors/packet-hip.c in the HIP dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.1 does not properly handle a NULL tree, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted packet.
Affected configurations
• wireshark wireshark 1.12.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1676 linux.oracle.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1676.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60280 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61929 secunia.com
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2014-16.html www.wireshark.org
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d9e5021fe79973d00ddd8fcef0bbefbaae63dd0f code.wireshark.org
- http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1676 linux.oracle.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1676.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60280 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61929 secunia.com
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2014-16.html www.wireshark.org
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d9e5021fe79973d00ddd8fcef0bbefbaae63dd0f code.wireshark.org