Vulnerability CVE-2014-6429
Published: 2014-09-20

Description:
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 does not properly handle empty input data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted file.

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:
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=47c592938ba9f0caeacc4c2ccadb370e72f293a2
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10461
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2014-19.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3049
http://secunia.com/advisories/61933
http://secunia.com/advisories/61929
http://secunia.com/advisories/60578
http://secunia.com/advisories/60280
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1677.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1676.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00058.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00033.html
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1677
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1676
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