Bug 1253360 (CVE-2015-6248)

Summary:	CVE-2015-6248 wireshark: Ptvcursor crash (wnpa-sec-2015-28)
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, lemenkov, phatina, rvokal, sardella, sisharma
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	wireshark 1.12.7	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2015-11-20 04:56:51 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1245763, 1253364
Bug Blocks:	1210268, 1253363

Description Martin Prpič 2015-08-13 14:29:32 UTC

It was reported that Wireshark's could crash due to invalid ptvcursor length checking. 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 the following Wireshark versions: 1.12.7.

Upstream bug(s):

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11358

External References:

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-28

Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-08-13 14:36:08 UTC

Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1253364]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2015-08-22 02:51:01 UTC

wireshark-1.12.7-2.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.\nIf you want to test the update, you can install it with \n su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update wireshark'. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-13945

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2015-08-22 16:24:16 UTC

wireshark-1.12.7-2.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.\nIf you want to test the update, you can install it with \n su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update wireshark'. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-13946

Comment 4 Adam Mariš 2015-08-26 16:18:11 UTC

CVE was assigned:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-6248

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2015-09-04 03:24:10 UTC

wireshark-1.12.7-2.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Siddharth Sharma 2015-09-20 17:22:23 UTC

Patch
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https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=3fc4a831e035604b0af14ed8a5c9f6596a3448d0 
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=5b53445e815fd6b652d49df03ec3d60b088c4fbc

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2015-10-07 06:21:48 UTC

wireshark-1.12.7-2.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-19 12:37:52 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 10 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-11-20 04:56:51 UTC

Statement:

This issue affects the version of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. This has been rated as having Moderate security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.