CVE-2014-6431 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Wireshark

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer7 documents6 sources
Severity
5.0MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
2.0%
top 16.49%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
WiresharkDebian Wireshark
Timeline
PublishedSep 20
Latest updateMay 17

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.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:N/I:N/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/wireshark< wireshark 1.12.1+g01b65bf-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianwireshark/wireshark< 1.12.1+g01b65bf-1+3
▶NVDwireshark/wireshark11 versions+10

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-92p5-pxx8-rcmg: Buffer overflow in the SnifferDecompress function in wiretap/ngsniffer↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2014-6431: Buffer overflow in the SnifferDecompress function in wiretap/ngsniffer↗2014-09-20
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
wireshark: DOS Sniffer file parser flaw (wnpa-sec-2014-19)↗2014-09-10
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Debian
CVE-2014-6431: wireshark - Buffer overflow in the SnifferDecompress function in wiretap/ngsniffer.c in the ...↗2014
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2014-6429 CVE-2014-6430 CVE-2014-6431 CVE-2014-6432 wireshark: DOS Sniffer file parser flaw (wnpa-sec-2014-19)↗2014-09-17
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Bugzilla
CVE-2014-6430 CVE-2014-6421 CVE-2014-6422 CVE-2014-6423 CVE-2014-6424 CVE-2014-6432 CVE-2014-6431 CVE-2014-6427 CVE-2014-6428 CVE-2014-6429 wireshark: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2014-09-17
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