CVE-2014-5161

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-08-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The dissect_log function in plugins/irda/packet-irda.c in the IrDA dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.9 does not properly strip '\n' characters, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer underflow and application crash) via a crafted packet.

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 1.10.0, 1.10.1, 1.10.2, 1.10.3, 1.10.4, 1.10.5 (+3)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00033.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00025.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00058.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/57593
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3002
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2014-08.html
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=16f8ba1bed579344df373bf38fff552ab8baf380
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00033.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00025.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00058.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/57593
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3002

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