Bug 559793 (CVE-2010-0304)

Summary:	CVE-2010-0304 wireshark: crash in LWRES dissector
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	kreilly, mjc, qe-baseos-security, rvokal
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Bug Depends On:	549581, 549582, 549583, 549584, 560743, 561098, 561099, 833992
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Description Vincent Danen 2010-01-29 01:26:31 UTC

Babi discovered several buffer overflows in the LWRES dissector which could be used to crash wireshark [1].

Fixed in trunk: r31524
Fixed in trunk-1.2: r31596
Fixed in trunk-1.0: r31671
Versions affected: 0.9.15 to 1.0.10, 1.2.0 to 1.2.5

[1] http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2010-02.html

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2010-01-30 05:21:04 UTC

This is CVE-2010-0304.

Comment 3 Vincent Danen 2010-02-01 18:54:45 UTC

The LWRES protocol is meant to be used locally to talk to BIND9 (for example, lwresd will only listen to 127.0.0.1):

http://www.phpman.info/index.php/man/lwresd/8

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having moderate security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here:

http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2010-03-02 16:31:54 UTC

wireshark-1.2.6-1.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/wireshark-1.2.6-1.fc12

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2010-03-04 00:09:23 UTC

wireshark-1.2.6-1.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2010-04-20 15:31:28 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3

Via RHSA-2010:0360 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0360.html