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CVE-2014-5161

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.

Published

2014-08-01T11:13:10.163

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 5.0 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-119

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	wireshark	wireshark	1.10.0	Yes
Application	wireshark	wireshark	1.10.1	Yes
Application	wireshark	wireshark	1.10.2	Yes
Application	wireshark	wireshark	1.10.3	Yes
Application	wireshark	wireshark	1.10.4	Yes
Application	wireshark	wireshark	1.10.5	Yes
Application	wireshark	wireshark	1.10.6	Yes
Application	wireshark	wireshark	1.10.7	Yes
Application	wireshark	wireshark	1.10.8	Yes

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00033.html ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00025.html ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00058.html ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/57593 ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3002 ([email protected])
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2014-08.html Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=16f8ba1bed579344df373bf38fff552ab8baf380 ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00033.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00025.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00058.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/57593 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3002 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2014-08.html Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=16f8ba1bed579344df373bf38fff552ab8baf380 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)