CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-6431

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2014-09-20 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
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-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the SnifferDecompress function in wiretap/ngsniffer.c in the DOS Sniffer file parser in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.10 and 1.12.x before 1.12.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted file that triggers writes of uncompressed bytes beyond the end of the output buffer.

Affected configurations

• wireshark wireshark 1.10.0 • wireshark wireshark 1.10.1 • wireshark wireshark 1.10.2 • wireshark wireshark 1.10.3 • wireshark wireshark 1.10.4 • wireshark wireshark 1.10.5 • wireshark wireshark 1.10.6 • wireshark wireshark 1.10.7 • wireshark wireshark 1.10.8 • wireshark wireshark 1.10.9 • wireshark wireshark 1.12.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References