Bug 1685001 (CVE-2019-9208)

Summary:	CVE-2019-9208 wireshark: null-pointer dereference in TCAP dissector
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	mruprich, tcullum
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	wireshark 2.6.7, wireshark 2.4.13	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Bug Depends On:	1690831
Bug Blocks:	1684116

Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-03-04 06:24:13 UTC

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.12 and 2.6.0 to 2.6.6, the TCAP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/asn1/tcap/tcap.cnf by avoiding NULL pointer dereferences.

Reference:
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15464

Upstream Patch:
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=3d1b8004ed3a07422ca5d4e4ee8097150b934fd2

Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-03-04 06:25:07 UTC

External References:

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-07.html

Comment 3 Stefan Cornelius 2019-03-20 10:18:36 UTC

Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.