CVE-2014-5162 Information

Description

The read_new_line function in wiretap/catapult_dct2000.c in the Catapult DCT2000 dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.9 does not properly strip ‘\n’ and ‘\r’ characters which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (off-by-one buffer underflow and application crash) via a crafted packet.

Reference

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-2014-08.html https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=16f8ba1bed579344df373bf38fff552ab8baf380