CVE-2014-5162: Wireshark

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

The read_new_line function in wiretap/catapult_dct2000.c in the Catapult DCT2000 dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.9 does not properly strip '\n' and '\r' characters, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (off-by-one 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.