Vulnerability CVE-2014-5165
Published: 2014-08-01

Description:
The dissect_ber_constrained_bitstring function in epan/dissectors/packet-ber.c in the ASN.1 BER dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.9 does not properly validate padding values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer underflow and application crash) via a crafted packet.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Wireshark -> Wireshark 

 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-2014-11.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10187
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=17a552666b50896a9b9dde8ee6a1052e7f9a622e
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