Bug 1697955 (CVE-2019-10898)

Summary:	CVE-2019-10898 wireshark: GSUP dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2019-18)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Marian Rehak <mrehak>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	denis, huzaifas, lemenkov, mruprich, msehnout, phatina, rvokal, sergey.avseyev
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	1697956
Bug Blocks:	1697993

Description Marian Rehak 2019-04-09 11:07:32 UTC

It may be possible to make Wireshark consume excessive CPU resources by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file

External Referencies:
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-12.html

Upstream bug(s):
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15585

Comment 1 Marian Rehak 2019-04-09 11:07:45 UTC

Created wireshark tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1697956]

Comment 2 Riccardo Schirone 2019-05-16 08:02:44 UTC

Upstream patch:
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=5d9d7893d6723b4545d4c2c765002e4830493dc6

Comment 3 Riccardo Schirone 2019-05-16 08:06:01 UTC

Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 as they did not include support for Osmocom Generic Subscriber Update Protocol (GSUP).

Comment 4 Riccardo Schirone 2019-05-16 09:44:44 UTC

External References:

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2019-12.html