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CVE-2014-5165

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-5165 describes a buffer underflow vulnerability in the ASN.1 BER dissector of Wireshark versions 1.10.x prior to 1.10.9. This flaw, residing in the dissect_ber_constrained_bitstring function, allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service and application crash through crafted packets. Rated with a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium), it requires no authentication and has low attack complexity, but only impacts availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.10.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.10.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.10.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.10.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.10.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.10.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.10.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.84%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0284 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: wireshark

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-5165Moderate

wireshark: ASN.1 BER dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2014-11)

Jun 17, 2014

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00033.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00025.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00058.html
bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
Exploit
code.wireshark.org / review/gitweb
secunia.com / advisories/57593
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-3002
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2014-11.html