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CVE-2014-6431

MEDIUM · CVSS 5 EPSS 3.41%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2014-09-20 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2014-6431
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5
EPSS
3.41%

Original NVD Description

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.