Buffer overflow in Wireshark - CVE-2014-5164
Published: August 1, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU41431
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-2014-5164
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
The rlc_decode_li function in epan/dissectors/packet-rlc.c in the RLC dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.9 initializes a certain structure member only after this member is used, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.
Affected software
Wireshark
Gentoo Linux
SUSE Linux
Gentoo Linux
SUSE Linux
How to mitigate CVE-2014-5164
Install update from vendor's website.
External References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00033.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00025.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00058.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57593
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3002
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2014-10.html
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9795
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=ba6eb5c72ffe82ca0e51c7083240975a5b118ad2