Bug 1625925 (CVE-2018-16057)

Summary: CVE-2018-16057 wireshark: Radiotap dissector crash
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, sardella
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Fixed In Version: wireshark 2.6.3, wireshark 2.4.9, wireshark 2.2.17 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Bug Depends On: 1625926, 1625927, 1633330    
Bug Blocks: 1625928    
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Description Andrej Nemec 2018-09-06 08:48:51 UTC
It may be possible to make Wireshark crash by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.

External References:

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-46.html

Upstream bug:

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15022

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2018-09-06 08:49:52 UTC
Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1625927]

Comment 3 Michal Ruprich 2018-09-26 09:48:39 UTC
Created attachment 1487125 [details]
Patch

Comment 4 Scott Gayou 2018-09-26 16:53:47 UTC
Impacts RHEL6/7. Invalid reads in valgrind, patch looks applicable.

Comment 7 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-07-12 13:06:00 UTC
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-16057

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2020-03-31 19:16:04 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2020:1047 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1047