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CVE-2014-6427

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-6427 describes an off-by-one error in the RTSP dissector of Wireshark versions 1.10.x before 1.10.10 and 1.12.x before 1.12.1. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (application crash) by sending a specially crafted packet. The CVSS score of 5.0 indicates a medium severity, with a low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a potential denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal 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
3.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0338 is in the 83rd 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

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-2014-6427Moderate

wireshark: RTSP dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2014-17)

Aug 14, 2014

References

linux.oracle.com / errata/ELSA-2014-1676
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
bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
code.wireshark.org / review/gitweb
secunia.com / advisories/60280
secunia.com / advisories/60578
secunia.com / advisories/61929
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-3049
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2014-17.html