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

A vulnerability exists in the dissectlog function within the plugins/irda/packet-irda.c file of the IrDA dissector in Wireshark, due to incorrect processing of the \n character. Exploiting this vulnerability allows malicious actors to cause service failures—such as insufficient buffer filling and...

CVE-2014-5161

Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.9 is affected by CVE-2014-5161 in the IrDA dissector (dissect_log). The issue arises because the dissector does not properly strip newline characters, enabling a remote attacker to trigger a denial-of-service via a crafted packet that can cause a buffer underflow and ...