Security Advisory

CVE-2014-5161

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2014-08-01 10:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 11:34:37
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.