CVE-2014-5161

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.

References

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=16f8ba1bed579344df373bf38fff552ab8baf380

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2014-08.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3002

http://secunia.com/advisories/57593

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00058.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00025.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00033.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3