CVE-2014-4174: Wireshark

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 5.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

wiretap/libpcap.c in the libpcap file parser in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted packet-trace file that includes a large packet.

Affected products

• Wireshark Wireshark: version 1.10.0 only; version 1.10.1 only; version 1.10.2 only; version 1.10.3 only

Published 2014-06-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.