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CVE-2014-6421

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-6421 is a use-after-free vulnerability in the SDP dissector of Wireshark versions 1.10.x prior to 1.10.10. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service by crafting a malicious packet that exploits memory handling issues between the SDP and RTP dissectors. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity. It can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity and requires no authentication, leading to a denial of service (application crash). There is no impact on confidentiality or integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. The vulnerability has received minimal community discussion and media coverage, suggesting low public awareness and interest.

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
2.91%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0291 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.0.15-7.el5_11
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.8.10-8.el6_6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.10.3-12.el7_0
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-6421Moderate

wireshark: RTP dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2014-12)

Mar 23, 2014

References

linux.oracle.com / errata/ELSA-2014-1676
linux.oracle.com / errata/ELSA-2014-1677
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00033.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00058.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-1676.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-1677.html
bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
code.wireshark.org / review/gitweb
secunia.com / advisories/60280
secunia.com / advisories/61929
secunia.com / advisories/61933
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2014-12.html