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CVE-2014-6430

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-6430 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Wireshark versions 1.10.x before 1.10.10 and 1.12.x before 1.12.1. The flaw resides in the SnifferDecompress function within the DOS Sniffer file parser, which fails to properly validate bitmask data. This allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to crash the application by providing a specially crafted file. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with low attack complexity and no confidentiality or integrity impact, only availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

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
3.06%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0306 is in the 81st 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 (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-2014-6430Moderate

wireshark: DOS Sniffer file parser flaw (wnpa-sec-2014-19)

Sep 10, 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/60578
secunia.com / advisories/61929
secunia.com / advisories/61933
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-3049
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2014-19.html