Bug 1565710 (CVE-2018-9258)

Summary:	CVE-2018-9258 wireshark: TCP dissector could crash in epan/dissectors/packet-tcp.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Laura Pardo <lpardo>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
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 2.4.6	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed:	2018-05-07 18:43:00 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1565675, 1565684, 1575728
Bug Blocks:	1565716

Description Laura Pardo 2018-04-10 15:10:31 UTC

A flaw was found in Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5, the TCP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-tcp.c by preserving valid data sources.


References:
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-21.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14472

Patch:
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=2d4695de1477df60b0188fd581c0c279db601978

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-04-10 15:17:00 UTC

Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1565684]