CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-6432
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 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 does not prevent data overwrites during copy operations, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted file.
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 · not in database (1)
References
- http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1676 linux.oracle.com
- http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1677 linux.oracle.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00033.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00058.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1676.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1677.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60280 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60578 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61929 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61933 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3049 www.debian.org
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2014-19.html www.wireshark.org
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10461 bugs.wireshark.org
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=47c592938ba9f0caeacc4c2ccadb370e72f293a2 code.wireshark.org
- http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1676 linux.oracle.com
- http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1677 linux.oracle.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00033.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00058.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1676.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1677.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60280 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60578 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61929 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61933 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3049 www.debian.org
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2014-19.html www.wireshark.org
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10461 bugs.wireshark.org
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=47c592938ba9f0caeacc4c2ccadb370e72f293a2 code.wireshark.org