VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2014-6431
CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability3.41%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2014-09-20
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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.
Weakness classification
- CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer