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DEBIAN-CVE-2014-6431

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-6431 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.300000190734863 CRITICAL

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS v4.0
9.300000190734863
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:14wireshark0, 0, 0
Debian:12wireshark0, 0, 0
Debian:13wireshark0, 0, 0
Debian:11wireshark0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Sep 20, 2014 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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