Input validation error in Wireshark - CVE-2014-8711
Published: November 23, 2014 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU41086
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-8711
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
Multiple integer overflows in epan/dissectors/packet-amqp.c in the AMQP dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.11 and 1.12.x before 1.12.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted amqp_0_10 PDU in a packet.
Affected software
Wireshark
Fedora
wireshark
Fedora
wireshark
How to mitigate CVE-2014-8711
Install update from vendor's website.
wireshark - update to 1.12.2-1.fc21
External 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/71070
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2014-21.html
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10582
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=8def8ef9c40189472a46d9b1ad95289780e09af5
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=8f62bb7cce5a82baa543b14800fd7c12548b497a