VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-6432

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

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 prevent data overwrites during copy operations, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted file.

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
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1.12.1+g01b65bf-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.12.1+g01b65bf-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.12.1+g01b65bf-1
debian debiansidfixed1.12.1+g01b65bf-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.12.1+g01b65bf-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
wiresharkwireshark1.10.0
wiresharkwireshark1.10.1
wiresharkwireshark1.10.2
wiresharkwireshark1.10.3
wiresharkwireshark1.10.4
wiresharkwireshark1.10.5
wiresharkwireshark1.10.6
wiresharkwireshark1.10.7
wiresharkwireshark1.10.8
wiresharkwireshark1.10.9
wiresharkwireshark1.12.0

References

CWEs

CWE-399

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.