CVE-2014-5165

wireshark: ASN.1 BER dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2014-11)

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 2.0

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Published · June 17, 2014

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

The dissect_ber_constrained_bitstring function in epan/dissectors/packet-ber.c in the ASN.1 BER dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.9 does not properly validate padding values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer underflow and application crash) via a crafted packet.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE not specified