The vulnerability of the Wireshark Network Protocol Analyzer software allows a remote attacker to compromise the accessibility of protected information.

The vulnerability exists in the APN decoding function in the GTP and GSM Management dissectors in Wireshark, due to incomplete initialization of buffers. Exploiting this vulnerability allows malicious actors to trigger a service failure abrupt termination of an application’s operation using a...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-5163

The APN decode functionality in 1 epan/dissectors/packet-gtp.c and 2 epan/dissectors/packet-gsmagm.c in the GTP and GSM Management dissectors in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.9 does not completely initialize a certain buffer, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application...