Bug 1534374 (CVE-2018-5336)

Summary:	CVE-2018-5336 wireshark: Missing recursion limit in epan/tvbparse.c can cause multiple dissectors to crash
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Sam Fowler <sfowler>
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, lemenkov, mruprich, msehnout, phatina, rvokal
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	wireshark 2.4.4, wireshark 2.2.12	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Description Sam Fowler 2018-01-15 06:12:04 UTC

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.3 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.11, the JSON, XML, NTP, XMPP, and GDB dissectors could crash. This was addressed in epan/tvbparse.c by limiting the recursion depth.

References:
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5336
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14253
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=4f4c95cf46ba6adbd10b09747e10742801bc706b
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=f6702e49a9720d173246668495eece6d77eca5b0
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-01.html

Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2018-01-15 06:12:43 UTC

Created libtiff tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1534375]