5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
5.3 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.003 Low
EPSS
Percentile
71.2%
Wireshark is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:wireshark:wireshark";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.804898");
script_version("2024-02-09T05:06:25+0000");
script_cve_id("CVE-2014-8710");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-09 05:06:25 +0000 (Fri, 09 Feb 2024)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2014-11-28 12:12:22 +0530 (Fri, 28 Nov 2014)");
script_name("Wireshark Denial-of-Service Vulnerability-02 (Nov 2014) - Mac OS X");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Wireshark is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Flaw exists due to a buffer overflow error
within the SigComp dissector.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow
attackers to conduct denial of service attack.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Wireshark version 1.10.x before 1.10.11
on Mac OS X");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to version 1.10.11 or later.");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://secunia.com/advisories/62367");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71069");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2014-20.html");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2014 Greenbone AG");
script_dependencies("gb_wireshark_detect_macosx.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("Wireshark/MacOSX/Version");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
if(!version = get_app_version(cpe:CPE)){
exit(0);
}
if(version_in_range(version:version, test_version:"1.10.0", test_version2:"1.10.10"))
{
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:version, vulnerable_range:"1.10.0 - 1.10.10");
security_message(port:0, data:report);
exit(0);
}