Bug 1222440 (CVE-2015-3815)

Summary:	CVE-2015-3815 wireshark: Android Logcat file parser crash (wnpa-sec-2015-18)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Martin Prpič <mprpic>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	huzaifas, lemenkov, manisandro, phatina, rvokal, sisharma
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OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	wireshark 1.12.5	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Martin Prpič 2015-05-18 08:40:12 UTC

It was reported that Wireshark's Android Logcat file parser could crash. 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=11188

External References:

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-18.html

Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-05-18 08:44:11 UTC

Fixed in Fedora via:

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

Comment 2 Siddharth Sharma 2015-06-17 17:46:08 UTC

Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.

Comment 3 Siddharth Sharma 2015-06-17 17:46:45 UTC

Patch
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https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=patch;h=afeff4f5d0c51d2394f7c0f00ae1c57ad8cd1ded