Wireshark vulnerability wnpa-sec-2014-05

Description

It may be possible to make Wireshark crash or execute malicious code by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.

Analysis

The libpcap file parser could crash. Discovered by Jeremy Brown.

Affected Applications

Wireshark

CVE References

CVE-2014-4174

Other References

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2014-05.html