Bug 1142606 (CVE-2014-6426)

Summary: CVE-2014-6426 wireshark: HIP dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2014-16)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Murray McAllister <mmcallis>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: chazlett, huzaifas, jrusnack, lemenkov, phatina, rvokal, sisharma, vdanen
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Bug Depends On: 1148264, 1148265, 1148266, 1148267, 1148277    
Bug Blocks: 1142615    

Description Murray McAllister 2014-09-17 06:08:54 UTC
An infinite loop issue was discovered in Wireshark's HIP dissector. It may be possible to make Wireshark consume an excessive amount of CPU by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.

This is reported to affect version 1.12.0. This version is not shipped in Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

External References:

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2014-16.html

Comment 1 Siddharth Sharma 2014-09-29 12:43:27 UTC
I dont see any upstream bugzilla assigned to it , but here is the upstream fix

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commitdiff;h=d9e5021fe79973d00ddd8fcef0bbefbaae63dd0f;hp=20721cbcbf76665b625d5b1243648c9a3ccc403d

Comment 3 Siddharth Sharma 2014-10-01 06:07:56 UTC
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1148277]

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-21 20:22:52 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2014:1676 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1676.html