Bug 1500762 (CVE-2017-15189)

Summary:	CVE-2017-15189 wireshark: DOCSIS infinite loop
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	denis, huzaifas, jlayton, lemenkov, mruprich, msehnout, phatina, steved
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	wireshark 2.4.2	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2019-06-08 03:29:13 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
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Bug Depends On:	1500769
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-10-11 12:27:41 UTC

It may be possible to make Wireshark consume excessive CPU resources by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.

Upstream bug:

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14080

Upstream patch:

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=625bab309d9dd21db2d8ae2aa3511810d32842a8

External References:

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2017-46.html

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-10-11 12:33:41 UTC

Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1500769]