CVE-2014-6431

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

5.5

MODERATE

Vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

1.527

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
(RHSA-2014:1677) Moderate: wireshark security update wireshark-1.0.15-7.el5_11.i386.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2014:1677) Moderate: wireshark security update wireshark-1.0.15-7.el5_11.x86_64.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2014:1677) Moderate: wireshark security update wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-7.el5_11.i386.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2014:1677) Moderate: wireshark security update wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-7.el5_11.x86_64.rpm	Linux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234