CVE-2014-6429

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-09-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

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 properly handle empty input data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted file.

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 1.10.0, 1.10.1, 1.10.2, 1.10.3, 1.10.4, 1.10.5 (+5)

References

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1676
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1677
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00033.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00058.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1676.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1677.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/60280
http://secunia.com/advisories/60578
http://secunia.com/advisories/61929
http://secunia.com/advisories/61933
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3049
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2014-19.html

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