CVE-2014-8710

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: 2014-11-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The decompress_sigcomp_message function in epan/sigcomp-udvm.c in the SigComp UDVM dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read 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 (+7)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145658.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00104.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1460.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/60231
http://secunia.com/advisories/60290
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3076
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71069
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2014-20.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10662
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2bd15c7cefcf87aa6b2d9d53477f0ece897ba620

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