CVE-2014-6421

medium

Published 2014-09-20 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.0

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the SDP dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet that leverages split memory ownership between the SDP and RTP dissectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1.12.0~rc1-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1.12.0~rc1-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`1.12.0~rc1-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`1.12.0~rc1-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1.12.0~rc1-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
wireshark	wireshark	`1.10.0`
wireshark	wireshark	`1.10.1`
wireshark	wireshark	`1.10.2`
wireshark	wireshark	`1.10.3`
wireshark	wireshark	`1.10.4`
wireshark	wireshark	`1.10.5`
wireshark	wireshark	`1.10.6`
wireshark	wireshark	`1.10.7`
wireshark	wireshark	`1.10.8`
wireshark	wireshark	`1.10.9`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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