CVE-2014-2283 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2014-2283?

CVE-2014-2283 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Wireshark Wireshark, published on 11 Mar 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

epan/dissectors/packet-rlc in the RLC dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.13 and 1.10.x before 1.10.6 uses inconsistent memory-management approaches, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free error and application crash) via a crafted UMTS Radio Link Control packet.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-2283?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Wireshark Wireshark.

How do I fix CVE-2014-2283?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2014-2283 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-2283 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Wireshark Wireshark

• CVE-2011-0444 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-2994 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-2995 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2009-1266 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2009-1210 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0

All Wireshark Wireshark vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-2283, GHSA-7775-rc33-q3fr, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-2283.