Bug 1655932 (CVE-2018-19622)

Summary:	CVE-2018-19622 wireshark: Infinite loop in the MMSE dissector
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	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 2.6.5, wireshark 2.4.11	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	A vulnerability in MMSE dissector allows Wireshark to loop infinitely when parsing a specially crafted pcap file. Remote attacker could cause a denial of service to Wireshark by injecting malicious packets into the network that are automatically processed.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2020-03-31 22:33:29 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1655944, 1660148, 1660149
Bug Blocks:	1655949

Description Andrej Nemec 2018-12-04 09:43:52 UTC

In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.4 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.10, the MMSE dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-mmse.c by preventing length overflows.

Upstream issue:

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15250

Upstream patch:

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=3b7555d32d11862f0e500ec466ad6bfe54190076

External References:

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-54.html

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2018-12-04 10:01:02 UTC

Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1655944]

Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2018-12-17 15:57:09 UTC

Statement:

This issue affects the versions of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now in Extended Life Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is now in Maintenance Support 2 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having a security impact of Low, and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2020-03-31 19:16:06 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

Comment 6 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-03-31 22:33:29 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-2018-19622