CVE-2014-5163: Wireshark

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The APN decode functionality in (1) epan/dissectors/packet-gtp.c and (2) epan/dissectors/packet-gsm_a_gm.c in the GTP and GSM Management dissectors in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.9 does not completely initialize a certain buffer, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (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.