CVE-2014-5161: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The dissect_log function in plugins/irda/packet-irda.c in the IrDA dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.9 does not properly strip '\n' characters, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer underflow and application crash) via a crafted 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; version 1.10.4 only; version 1.10.5 only; …

Published 2014-08-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.