Bug 524001 (CVE-2009-3242)

Summary:	CVE-2009-3242 Wireshark: DoS (crash) in GSM A RR dissector
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	mjc, rvokal
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OS:	Linux
URL:	https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3893
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2009-09-17 14:51:59 UTC

A denial of service flaw was found in the Wireshark's GSM layer 3 Radio Resource Protocol (GSM A RR) dissector. Loading a specially-crafted GSM A RR PCAP capture
file in Wireshark would lead to Wireshark crash.

References:
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https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3893
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-06.html

Upstream patch:
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http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-gsm_a_rr.c?r1=29390&r2=29403&pathrev=29403

Reproducer:
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http://www.wireshark.org/download/automated/captures/fuzz-2009-08-13-21137.pcap

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2009-09-17 14:53:23 UTC

This issue does NOT affect the versions of the wireshark package, 
as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5.

This issue affects the latest versions of wireshark package,
as shipped with Fedora release of 10 and 11 (wireshark-1.2.1-1.fc10
and wireshark-1.2.1-1.fc11).

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2009-09-18 10:52:49 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2009-3242 to
the following vulnerability:

Unspecified vulnerability in packet.c in the GSM A RR dissector in
Wireshark 1.2.0 and 1.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
service (application crash) via unknown vectors related to "an
uninitialized dissector handle," which triggers an assertion failure.

References:
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3242
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3893
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-06.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36408
http://secunia.com/advisories/36754

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2009-11-04 12:02:42 UTC

wireshark-1.2.2-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.