Bug 1199165 (CVE-2015-2189)

Summary: CVE-2015-2189 wireshark: The pcapng file parser could crash (wnpa-sec-2015-08)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: unspecifiedCC: huzaifas, jrusnack, lemenkov, phatina, rvokal, sisharma
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: Wireshark 1.12.4,Wireshark 1.10.13 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-11-20 04:50:18 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1199173, 1208005, 1245883, 1245885    
Bug Blocks: 1199171, 1210268    

Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-03-05 14:40:56 UTC
From: https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-08.html

Name: Pcapng file parser crash
Docid: wnpa-sec-2015-08
Date: March 4, 2015
Affected versions: 1.12.0 to 1.12.3, 1.10.0 to 1.10.12

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10895
Upstream 1.10.x patch: https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/6802/

Description: The pcapng file parser could crash.
Impact: It may be possible to make Wireshark crash by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.

Comment 1 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-03-05 14:49:37 UTC
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1199173]

Comment 2 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-03-05 14:52:15 UTC
Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2015-07-22 07:24:12 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2015:1460 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1460.html

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-19 12:36:56 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2015:2393 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2393.html