CVE-2014-6431

Description

Buffer overflow in 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 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted file that triggers writes of uncompressed bytes beyond the end of the output buffer.

References

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=47c592938ba9f0caeacc4c2ccadb370e72f293a2

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10461

http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2014-19.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3049

http://secunia.com/advisories/61933

http://secunia.com/advisories/61929

http://secunia.com/advisories/60578

http://secunia.com/advisories/60280

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1677.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1676.html

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

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

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1677

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1676

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3