Bug 1607325 (CVE-2018-14339)

Summary: CVE-2018-14339 wireshark: MMSE dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2018-38)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
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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Fixed In Version: wireshark 2.6.2, wireshark 2.4.8, wireshark 2.2.16 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Bug Depends On: 1607333, 1607334    
Bug Blocks: 1607335    

Description Andrej Nemec 2018-07-23 09:51:18 UTC 
It was found that MMSE dissector could crash by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.

Upstream bug(s):

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14738

External References:

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-38.html
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2018-07-23 09:57:29 UTC 
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1607334]
Comment 4 Pedro Yóssis Silva Barbosa 2018-08-06 12:47:16 UTC 
Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 (versions 1.8.10 and 1.10.14, respectively).