CVE-2014-5161

Publication date

2014-08-01 10:00:00

Family

mitre

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.