Bug 1565833 (CVE-2018-9274)

Summary: CVE-2018-9274 wireshark: memory leak in ui/failure_message.c
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Laura Pardo <lpardo>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: denis, huzaifas, lemenkov, mruprich, msehnout, phatina, rvokal
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: wireshark 2.4.6, wireshark 2.2.14 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Bug Depends On: 1565675, 1565684, 1575744    
Bug Blocks: 1565716    

Description Laura Pardo 2018-04-10 21:09:58 UTC 
A flaw was found in Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, ui/failure_message.c has a memory leak.


References:
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-24.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14489

Patch:
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=211845aba4794720ae265c782cdffddae54a3e7a
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=f38e895dfc0d97bce64f73ce99df706911d9aa07
Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-04-10 21:11:17 UTC 
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1565684]