CVE-2014-5164 Information

Description

The rlc_decode_li function in epan/dissectors/packet-rlc.c in the RLC dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.9 initializes a certain structure member only after this member is used which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (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-2014-10.html https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9795 https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=ba6eb5c72ffe82ca0e51c7083240975a5b118ad2