Bug 1222438 (CVE-2015-3813)

Summary:	CVE-2015-3813 wireshark: Reassembly memory leak (wnpa-sec-2015-16)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Martin Prpič <mprpic>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	huzaifas, jrusnack, lemenkov, manisandro, phatina, rvokal, sisharma
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	wireshark 1.12.5	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the way packet reassembly code of wireshark would parse a packet which could leak memory. An attacker could use this flaw to crash wireshark by sending a specially crafted packet onto the wire or by convincing wireshark user to read malformed packet trace file.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2015-11-20 04:52:52 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1245883, 1245885, 1245886, 1245887
Bug Blocks:	1210268, 1222441

Description Martin Prpič 2015-05-18 08:39:47 UTC

It was reported that Wireshark's packet reassembly code could leak memory.. 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.

This flaw is fixed in versions the following Wireshark versions: 1.12.5.

Upstream bug:

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11129

External References:

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-16.html

Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-05-18 08:43:51 UTC

Fixed in Fedora via:

FEDORA-2015-8150 -- wireshark-1.12.5-1.fc21

Comment 2 Siddharth Sharma 2015-06-17 17:13:45 UTC

Patch
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https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=patch;h=27e0dac05b05b2fe780bbcb685933a714be10ef0

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-19 12:37:18 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

Comment 9 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-11-20 04:52:52 UTC

Statement:

(none)

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-21 09:54:02 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2017:0631 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0631.html