Bug 710097 (CVE-2011-2174)

Summary:	CVE-2011-2174 wireshark: Double-free flaw by uncompressing of a zlib compressed packet
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bressers, huzaifas, jsafrane, rvokal
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2012-04-23 17:41:18 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	809045, 809046
Bug Blocks:	807617

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-06-02 12:51:41 UTC

A double free flaw was found in the way Wireshark uncompressed a zlib
compressed packet inside a message of tvbuff buffer. A remote attacker
could create a specially-crafted capture file, which once opened, by a
local, unsuspecting user could lead to wireshark application crash.

References:
[1] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5908
    (upstream bug report, not public)
[2] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/31/20
    (CVE request)
[3] http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-07.html
    (upstream advisory)

Upstream patch:
[4] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&amp;revision=37081

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-06-02 12:55:16 UTC

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


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

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This issue affects the versions of the wireshark package, as shipped with
Fedora release of 13, 14 and 15.

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2012-04-23 16:52:18 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:0509 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0509.html

Comment 5 Vincent Danen 2012-04-23 17:41:18 UTC

Current Fedora has wireshark 1.4.12 which is not affected by this flaw.

Comment 6 Vincent Danen 2012-04-23 17:42:21 UTC

Statement:

This issue did not affect the version of wireshark as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.